San Bernardino County has added a new tool to its COVID-19 website: a quarantine and isolation calculator that enables people to determine how long they should self-isolate if they’ve been diagnosed or exposed to someone with COVID-19. Managing editor Tami Roleff has more information…
If you or someone you love has tested positive for the disease, is sick with COVID-19, or been exposed to someone with COVID-19, the county’s new Quarantine and Isolation Calculator lets you know when your isolation may end by entering the date when symptoms were first exhibited; a test was conducted; or you were potentially exposed to the disease. There are options for people who tested positive and have symptoms of COVID; have tested positive but don’t have symptoms; for those in close contact with someone who tested positive, but show no symptoms; and for those who previously tested positive and want to calculate their susceptibility to re-infection.
San Bernardino County is making steady progress through Phase 1A of the stateâs coronavirus vaccination campaign, and is monitoring recommendations being considered by California s Community Vaccine Advisory Committee, county officials said on Dec. 30.
The new guidelines were announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Dec. 28 and were expected to be finalized by the state California Department of Public Health.
If the newly adapted phases are approved, there will be three new tiers in Phase 1A. San Bernardino County is currently in Tier 1 of Phase 1A, which means the county is currently distributing vaccine doses to frontline health care workers, medical first responders (e.g. paramedics) and dialysis centers; and soon to skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care residents.
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LOS ANGELES â Two makeshift hospital rooms sit outside the ambulance entrance to Arrowhead Medical Center in San Bernardino County, a hint of how dire things have become as the county faces a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Things have gotten so bad at times that paramedics and ambulance drivers have had to wait up to six hours to offload COVID-19 patients, many of them often struggling to breathe.
âWe had patients who were taking 40 to 50 breaths per minute. The average is 20,â said Dr. Joel Labha, who has taken care many of those patients.
Hospitals across California are being overwhelmed by the surge in coronavirus, but the conditions in San Bernardino County and the greater Inland Empire are particularly acute. New cases of the coronavirus in San Bernardino County are growing faster than any other county in California on a per capita basis, according to The Timesâ tracker.
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LOS ANGELES – Two makeshift hospital rooms sit outside the ambulance entrance to Arrowhead Medical Center in San Bernardino County, a hint of how dire things have become as the county faces a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Things have gotten so bad at times that paramedics and ambulance drivers have had to wait up to six hours to offload COVID-19 patients, many of them often struggling to breathe.
“We had patients who were taking 40 to 50 breaths per minute. The average is 20,” said Dr. Joel Labha, who has taken care many of those patients.