Intensive Care Unit, California, USA

Hyperbaric oxygen device failure due to rapid increase in patients
Some arrangements for new infections and deaths

[아시아경제 국제부 기자] CNN broadcast on the 2nd (local time) reported that the intensive care unit hospital beds in the southern California and San Wakin Valley areas centered on Los Angeles (LA) were shared.

In addition, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was put in at six hospitals in Los Angeles County because the device to supply high-pressure oxygen did not work properly due to a surge in patients. As COVID-19 patients flocked and the demand for oxygen needed for treatment increased rapidly, the aging infrastructure (infrastructure) was unable to handle this.

In California, the death toll of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) on the 31st of last month reached 574, a record high since the pandemic (a global pandemic).

Also, in Texas on the 1st, the number of inpatients for Corona 19 exceeded 12,400, breaking the record for 5 consecutive days. The state of Georgia made a new record with 8,700 new infections, and in Maryland, the number of new cases was the second ever. Arkansas also has 4,300 new infections, making it the most infected day.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson wrote on Twitter, “As we start the new year, our first decision should be to follow the guidelines. “We should all do our part.”

There are many prospects that the situation will worsen in the future. After Christmas and New Year’s holidays, many people go on a trip, and the aftermath of meeting with family and relatives will be visible in January and February.

For example, the Institute of Health and Measurement Analysis (IHME) at the University of Washington Medical School predicts that an additional 110,000 people will die in the United States in one month in January. The institute recently predicted the cumulative number of Corona 19 deaths in the U.S. on February 1 at 459324 in the Corona 19 prediction model.

On the 2nd, Johns Hopkins University counted the cumulative number of corona19 confirmed cases in the United States at 2017 million and the cumulative death toll at 348,000.

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