L.A. County's COVID hospitalization explosion is literally off the charts
L.A. County's spiking COVID hospitalizations are literally heading off the charts Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money © (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A nurse holds a COVID-19 patient's hand before she is intubated in the intensive care unit at Loma Linda University Medical Center on Dec. 15. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) The pace of new COVID-19 hospitalizations is spiking so quickly in Los Angeles County that it is now literally off the charts, forcing officials to redraw the graphics used to illustrate the grim projections for what is ahead. In October, fewer than 150 ...