By City News Service
Feb 4, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Reputed Orange County Mexican Mafia chief Johnny Martinez and four co-defendants were ordered today to stand trial for an alleged conspiracy planned and organized within state prison with smuggled-in cell phones to kill a reputed drug dealer who was targeted for not paying “taxes to the gang.
An indictment was tossed last year on issues related to evidence presented to the grand jury, but prosecutors refiled charges and the defendants were held to answer at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing that started in November and was interrupted when some of them were infected with COVID-19 during an outbreak in the jails.
Replies(16) A health official in California s third largest county is urging hospitals to cancel elective surgeries and implement plans for an onslaught of COVID-19 patients, as intensive care units fill up statewide amid spiking virus cases. (California OES via AP, File)
SANTA ANA, CA Orange County Monday set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations while also reaching zero intensive care unit capacity in the state s adjusted category. Still, the region remains the epicenter of the effort to roll back the state s stay-home orders with county leaders decrying state measures to slow the spread of the disease.
The county logged 3,250 COVID-19 new infections, raising the cumulative case total to 105,754 Monday. At the same time, sheriff s officials wrangled with an escalating outbreak in the jails.Hospitalizations jumped from 1,236 Sunday to 1,287, including 288 ICU patients, up from 284 the previous day. Both are new records a daily occurrence since last wee
By City News Service
US-HEALTH-VIRUS
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations Monday, while its intensive care units reached zero capacity in the state s “adjusted category and sheriff s officials wrangled with an escalating outbreak in the jails.
The county logged 3,250 COVID-19 new infections, raising the cumulative case total to 105,754.
Hospitalizations jumped from 1,236 Sunday to 1,287, including 288 ICU patients, up from 284 the previous day. Both are new records a daily occurrence since last week.
The county s ICU bed availability shrunk from 11.2% Sunday to 9.3% Monday in the unadjusted category, but is at zero for the “adjusted metric the state created to reflect the difference in beds available for COVID-19 patients and non-coronavirus patients.
Last week, the county reported 62 fatalities, up from 41 and 26, respectively, in the two previous weeks.
Prior to this month, the record for ICU patients in Orange was 245 during a mid-July surge. Overall hospitalizations have been breaking records daily since Dec. 2.
Orange County, which had 53% of its ventilators available as of Monday, is awaiting its first shipment of vaccines, expected to arrive Wednesday. About 25,000 doses are expected, according to Orange County CEO Frank Kim.
The county has the necessary deep freezers and dry ice available to store the medicine, he said, noting that frontline hospital workers are expected to be among the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine.