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L.A. County has fewer than 100 ICU beds available, with worst still coming, officials say
Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money, Maura Dolan
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Nurses Anthony Stamegna, left, and Virginia Petersen reposition a COVID-19 patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Intensive care unit beds across Southern California are plummeting to critical levels, with capacity falling to 1% in Ventura County and 0% in Riverside County while Los Angeles County home to 10 million people had fewer than 100 beds available.
But the worst of the surge is still to come, experts say. L.A. County has more than 4,400 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and officials said that number could rise to 5,000 by the weekend. ....

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