Mary Wilson
New member
LOS ANGELES TIMES | Thursday, December 31, 2020 10:27 a.m.
... Hospital morgues are so full that the National Guard is being called in to help county workers as corpses are moved into storage at the L.A. County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. The overcrowded crypts at hospitals are a result of private mortuaries running out of space and staff to handle the unprecedented number of covid-19 deaths.
... Additionally, 911 patients who have a do-not-resuscitate directive will not be taken to acute-care facilities such as a hospital, nor will certain trauma patients whose hearts have stopped.
The agency is also allowing emergency medical service providers to decline to take low-risk patients to hospitals with mild respiratory illnesses.
https://triblive.com/news/world/bod...s-as-covid-19-devastates-la-county-hospitals/
... Hospital morgues are so full that the National Guard is being called in to help county workers as corpses are moved into storage at the L.A. County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. The overcrowded crypts at hospitals are a result of private mortuaries running out of space and staff to handle the unprecedented number of covid-19 deaths.
... Additionally, 911 patients who have a do-not-resuscitate directive will not be taken to acute-care facilities such as a hospital, nor will certain trauma patients whose hearts have stopped.
The agency is also allowing emergency medical service providers to decline to take low-risk patients to hospitals with mild respiratory illnesses.
https://triblive.com/news/world/bod...s-as-covid-19-devastates-la-county-hospitals/