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Running Out of Room: Mortuaries Feel the Strain of the Virus Surge

We have put on extra staff. I ve even brought my brother out of retirement, he s a retired embalmer, to come back and help us out. There s a several week delay on making an arrangement and several weeks out on having a service. Depending on a family s religion or rituals, they ve asked some if they re open to cremation with a memorial service set for a later date to not overwhelm the system. On Jan. 17, The South Coast Air Quality Management District even issued an emergency order for crematoriums, allowing them to take care of their backlog, citing that the death toll is more than double pre-pandemic years.

Hospitals Filling Up, Nurses Stretched Thin as COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise

Hospitals Filling Up, Nurses Stretched Thin as COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise Kim Tobin and Patrick Healy © Provided by NBC Los Angeles Hospitals around Southern California are filling up. The amount of nurses and doctors are stretched thin. Our staff is doing an amazing job, said Dr. Larry Kidd, the chief clinical officer at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita. They are working very long hours. They are working extra days. Kidd says some severe COVID-19 cases require around-the-clock care. We can have patients that have preexisting conditions, their care is more complex, and it could be up to several weeks they might be here, he said.

SCVNews com | State Expect COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Soon; L A County Responds to Court Ruling

While state public health officials expect a COVID-19 vaccine distribution to begin soon, the Southern California region intensive care unit capacity continued to drop. Food and Drug Administration officials granted emergency authorization of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Friday evening, after receiving a vote of confidence from a U.S. government advisory panel Thursday. The move could prompt distribution to California as early as Sunday, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. “We learned the FDA just approved the emergency authorization of the Pfizer vaccine, which means there’s 327,600 doses of the vaccine on their way to the state of California,” said Newsom in a video posted to his official Twitter account on Saturday. “We’re expecting distribution as early as (Sunday).”

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