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Already overworked and strained Los Angeles County ICU doctors brace themselves for another anticipated surge in COVID-19 patients

reported the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests is now at 17% across the county, more than four times what it was on November 1.

He explained that, so far, to accommodate the current surge, the hospital has shifted to allow for more virtual visits to help keep space available for people who have to come in. They've also reduced some of their routine care and cut out things like elective procedures. A patient lies on a stretcher in the hallway of the overloaded Emergency Room amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on December 23, 2020.Kelman said his hospital has adapted to turn different departments, such as some areas in the emergency room, into spaces that accommodate ICU needs to see COVID-19 patients.

"We're really doing our best to try and hold the fort, but as long as people continue to fail public health measures and advice, then I think we're going to continue to see the surge," she said. Nurse Michele Younkin, 28, takes off her personal protective equipment after assisting Antonio Navarro's family members visiting to say goodbye to the patient in his final moments in a COVID-19 unit at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif., Friday, July 31, 2020. Navarro was nurse Michel Younkin's first COVID-19 patient to pass on her watch.

 

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