Covid 19 coronavirus: Los Angeles calls in National Guard to remove bodies of virus victims
1 Jan, 2021 05:16 AM
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Medical workers prepare to manually move a Covid-19 patient into prone position in an intensive care unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Centre in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Photo / AP
Medical workers prepare to manually move a Covid-19 patient into prone position in an intensive care unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Centre in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Photo / AP
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By: Alexis Carey
America s coronavirus crisis has reached a new low, with its second-biggest city so overrun with cases that patients are dying in hospital hallways, with morgues now overflowing.
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Health by Alexis Carey 1st Jan 2021 3:44 PM America s coronavirus crisis has reached a new low, with its second-biggest city so overrun with cases that patients are dying in hospital hallways with morgues now overflowing. The situation has grown so dire in Los Angeles - a sprawling city with a population of nearly 4 million - that the National Guard has been called in to move bodies into storage at the LA County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner.
#Every10Minutes someone dies of COVID-19 in LA County. People who were loved and will be missed. Until we slow the spread, the next person to tragically pass away could be someone you know.â LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) December 31, 2020
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Los Angeles County’s healthcare system was buckling Wednesday under the unprecedented surge of COVID-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures as they brace for conditions to worsen in the coming weeks…
“No one would believe this is in the United States,” said Scott Byington, a critical care nurse at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood. “Everyone is doing what they can do. It’s not that anybody is slacking. It’s just that it’s too overwhelming for everyone.”
It's hard to grasp that the stories coming out of Los Angeles County'sCOVID-19 outbreak are happening on American soil: patients dying in crowdedhospital hallways, medical providers running out of oxygen canisters and deadbodies piling up with nowhere left to store them.The county surpassed 10,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, as well as itssingle-day record of COVID-19 deaths with 262 fatalities.The horror stories doctors, nurses and other.