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On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti asked residents of his city to “just stay home. ”
As L. . ONE. Covid-19 hospital stays hit an all-time high and beds in the intensive care unit should run out in the coming weeks. Garcetti said clearly: « It’s time to cancel everything. ”
Garcetti admonished L. . ONE. Resident and say, « Don’t meet anyone outside of your household. Don’t hold meetings. Don’t go to meetings. Just stay home. ”
Referring to a statement made this week by Dr. . Anthony Fauci, Garcetti, warned of “a December wave on a Thanksgiving wave on a Christmas wave. Two of these waves could already peak.
On Tuesday, health officials confirmed 7. 593 new infections in the county, beating previous high of 6. 124, which was listed last week. The daily test positivity rate on Wednesday was 12% compared to 7% a little over a week ago. This indicates that the virus in L is infecting more people faster than ever before. ONE. Even if the county delivers more tests than ever before.
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Los Angeles county health director Barbara Ferrer reported 5,987 new cases Wednesday, bringing the total to 414. 185 totaled. There are 2. 439 people hospitalized with Covid-19, the highest level in the entire pandemic.
COVID-19 daily update: 2. December 2020New cases: 5. 987 (previously 414. 185) New deaths: 40 (previously 7. 740) Current hospital stays: 2. 439 fig. Twitter. com / wQBT0j5pFm
The hospital numbers are worrying as California Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday that L. . ONE. may no longer have intensive care units by mid-December – see table below. Newsom also strongly suggested that the state put in place a stricter home stay order. That looked even more likely after CA reported a record number of new cases on Wednesday, roughly 1/3 higher than the mark set last week.
That feeling was confirmed Wednesday by Christina Ghaly, the director of health and human services in Los Angeles. She said that while the local hospital system still has 963 beds available, the number of ICU beds has dropped to 122. That is 122 beds in the intensive care unit for a district with 10 million inhabitants.
Personnel, not beds, is the critical issue in the intensive care unit. Specially trained nurses and doctors are not easy to come by. Given the current number and current “scarce” staff, Ghaly said the county’s models show, “We will have a shortage of intensive care beds for the next 2-4 weeks. « An insufficient number of intensive care beds means that people who need intensive care will not receive it and a greater percentage of Covid-19 patients will die.
40 new coronavirus-related deaths were recorded in the county on Wednesday, 7 total. 740 to date. On deaths Garcetti noted, “We know this number is a lagging indicator and we expect it to go up. Ferrer said earlier in the day that the trend had already started.
« We are now seeing a sharp increase in daily deaths, » she said. “Knowing that these deaths reflect the number of cases from a month ago, as cases continue to rise, we should all be extremely concerned about what this means for daily deaths. ”
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