Faced with a new epidemic peak, hospitals and ambulance services in the city of California are forced to ration their oxygen reserves. The neighboring state of Arizona holds the record for the number of hospitalizations in the country.
The United States started the year with “A record number of hospitalizations of patients with Covid-19”, underline the Washington Post.
As of January 5, 2021, more than 131,000 hospitalizations have been recorded across the country, “Eclipsing the previous record dating from the end of December”.
If it is the state of Arizona which records the highest rate of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in the country, it is Los Angeles which displays the most worrying health situation, continues the daily.
Rejected patients
Los Angeles County health facilities are in fact so overwhelmed that they are starting to lack oxygen. The county ambulance services were thus ordered to “Reserve the use of oxygen for the most seriously ill patients and not to transport even more serious cases to hospitals with little chance of survival, in order to preserve the reception capacities of local hospitals” , report it Washington Post.
Several hospitals have also been forced to “Refusing patients in recent days because they no longer had the technical capacity to welcome them and in particular lacked oxygen to treat them”.
The Los Angeles Times evokes for its part a “Real human disaster” and recalls that the county of Los Angeles exceeded, on January 5, another sad threshold: more than 11,000 Angelenos have indeed died of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
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