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Amid ‘viral tsunami,’ Army Corps of Engineers will aid LA hospitals facing oxygen problems [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CORONAVIRUS-LA-HOSPITALS-OXYGEN:LA]
LOS ANGELES In a stark reminder of how overstretched hospital care has become across Los Angeles, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to send crews to the region to upgrade the oxygen-delivery systems at a handful of aging hospitals.
News of the deployment comes five days after several L.A. County hospitals declared internal disasters and temporarily turned away all ambulance traffic because their internal oxygen systems began to buckle beneath the high demand of air flow needed by patients packed into COVID-19 wards.
As SoCal hospitals work around the clock to treat a record-shattering number of COVID-19 patients, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is sending crews to the region to help older hospitals facing oxygen problems.
By MARISA GERBER AND RONG-GONG LIN II | Los Angeles Times | Published: January 2, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) In a stark reminder of how overstretched hospital care has become across Los Angeles, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to send crews to the region to upgrade the oxygen-delivery systems at a handful of aging hospitals. News of the deployment comes five days after several L.A. County hospitals declared internal disasters and temporarily turned away all ambulance traffic because their internal oxygen systems began to buckle beneath the high demand of air flow needed by patients packed into COVID-19 wards.