The pandemic is now hitting hardest in the San Joaquin Valley, the Sacramento area and rural Northern California, in terms of per capita hospitalizations.
Hospitals in California’s Central Valley are increasingly overwhelmed by the fourth surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, with officials scrambling to transfer some critically ill patients more than 100 miles away because local intensive care units are full.
to the state Department of Public Health, meaning for every person infected, the virus is being transmitted to slightly more than one other person, meaning the spread of the virus is increasing. There are “very sick patients taking up every ICU resource, and every bed that’s available, with lots of stress and strain on the entire healthcare system,” Vohra said.Fresno County is the most populous in the San Joaquin Valley, and valleywide, available intensive care unit beds has been below 10%, forcing the state to order surge protocols. As of Monday, only 8.
Fresno County is also suffering a nursing shortage. But there are few nurses to spare. Even Los Angeles County’s public hospital system is unable to staff all of its beds due to shortages. “We’re functioning really in a disaster mode at this point,” Utecht said recently. It’s now difficult for hospitals to treat patients even for non-COVID reasons like a car accident, stroke or heart attack, he said.“We run out of ICU beds on a daily basis,” Ivonne Der Torosian of St. Agnes Medical Center said at a recent briefing, forcing the hospital to convert other areas into spaces that can treat critically ill people.
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