A team that includes subject-matter experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles Department of Public Works and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services conduct a final inspection of work of Alternate Care Facility #2 at Mission Community Hospital, in Panorama City, California, April 22, as part of FEMA’s support to California in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A team that includes subject-matter experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles Department of Public Works and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services conduct a final inspection of work of Alternate Care Facility #2 at Mission Community Hospital, in Panorama City, California, April 22, as part of FEMA’s support to California in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccine crisis: Shortage leads to closed sites, postponed appointments in LA
KABC
LOS ANGELES (KABC) Los Angeles County health officials are encouraged as the number of coronavirus cases continues to trend downward, but concern persists about the shortage of vaccines, which has prompted the two-day closure of five city-run sites.
On Wednesday, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city will have exhausted its supply of Moderna first doses - two are required for full immunization - forcing it to close vaccination sites Friday and Saturday at Dodger Stadium, San Fernando Park, Hansen Dam, Lincoln Park and the Crenshaw Christian Center.
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Why some hospitals have to scramble for oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients
Adobe
As Covid-19 cases began spiking last month, Mara Bryant and her hospital staff had to scramble to ensure enough oxygen was available.
As the number of patients at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles reached 200 a day, the facility quickly began using six times its normal amount of oxygen. To cope, a 6,000-gallon tank was added as a back up to the usual 9,000-gallon tank, but finding that extra tank took two weeks. And once it was in place, it had to be refilled every day or two.
âOur New York Momentâ: Southern California Reels as Virus Surges
In the coming days, Los Angeles County will reach a level where one in 10 residents has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Nataly Arias mourning the death of her grandfather, Gilberto Arreguin, who died from complications of Covid-19, at the Continental Funeral Home in Los Angeles.Credit.Alex Welsh for The New York Times
Published Jan. 9, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 2021
LOS ANGELES â A sustained surge of coronavirus infections has locked Southern California in crisis, overwhelming intensive care wards, ambulance services, funeral homes and local officials.
Dozens of overcrowded hospitals have had to shut their emergency-room doors to ambulances for hours at a time. Medical wards are running dangerously low on a vital necessity: oxygen, and the portable canisters to supply it to patients. Los Angeles County has a coronavirus-related death every eight minutes, a grim toll accompanied in many neighborhoods