More than 300 Coronavirus Deaths in LA County Today-Highest Daily Deaths Ever | Coronavirus News

Los Angeles County reported more than 300 COVID-19-related deaths on Friday, and top health officials have seen a surge in post-vacation cases in the region, which inevitably leads to higher hospitalizations and deaths. He said he was just getting started. ..

The 318 deaths were the highest ever reported by the county in a day during a pandemic. In the outlook, the county’s chief scientific officer said the county killed an average of 170 people in all other causes, including heart attacks, cancer, car accidents, suicides, and murders.

“The scale of the tragedy associated with this pandemic is immeasurable,” Dr. Paul Simon told reporters. “It’s even more so because many of them are preventable. The so many numbers we report today are sadly not surprising. They weren’t a coincidence. They didn’t follow the necessary precautions. It is a direct result of many people. During the winter vacation — do not wear face covers, do not limit contact with people outside the house, do not physically leave the house, and do not refrain from traveling.

“We expect the number of hospitalizations and deaths to remain high throughout the month because of what happened during the holidays,” he said.

The record death toll marks the first anniversary of the county Public Health Service’s first warning of a new outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, China.

“This warning explained the beginning of what sadly made us a pandemic of the most serious infectious diseases of the century,” Simon said.

The death toll of 318 people increased the death toll from the pandemic to 11,863 in the county.

The county has reported more than 200 deaths in each of the last three days. This is the unavoidable end result of the surge in hospitalizations, which has increased since mid-November, and has increased even more dramatically after Thanksgiving holidays.

Due to the increasing number of deaths, some hospitals are facing the problem of lack of space to store their bodies. In particular, the funeral home has gone too far to accept the body. A team of California National Guard was previously sent to the county coroner’s office to help manage the growing death toll.

In a statement Thursday, the Governor-General of Emergency Services announced that it would build a temporary morgue in a parking lot adjacent to the county coroner’s building to handle the influx of bodies. The facility includes at least five state-provided 53-foot trailers, five county-provided trailers, and an unknown number of “ground refrigerated storage containers.”

On Friday, the county also announced an additional 18,313 confirmed COVID-19 infections, increasing the total since the pandemic began at 889,405.

According to the state, as of Friday, 7,966 people admitted to the county with COVID-19 decreased slightly from Thursday. However, the number of COVID patients in the intensive care unit has increased to 1,714.

According to county health services statistics, there are a total of 761 beds available at 70 “911 Receiving” hospitals in the county, of which 54 are adult ICU beds.

The county’s 70 “911 Receiving” hospitals with emergency rooms have a total licensed capacity of approximately 2,500 ICU beds. Last week, the county had an average of 31 adult ICU beds available daily, and 78% of all ICU patients in the county were treated for COVID.

County Health Services Director Dr. Christina Garry said new daily hospitalizations began to level off this week, but are still high, patient discharges have not caught up and have led to an increase in the hospital population. It was.

However, she and other health officials warned that hospitalizations are expected to surge again as a result of the winter vacation. According to Simon, the county has just begun to see an increase in the number of cases since the Christmas holidays.

“This is a clear reflection of what happened when (people) traveled and mixed up during the vacation two to four weeks ago,” Simon said. “… where people share the air … the virus will spread. Given the high number of cases … at least in the next two to four years, high levels of hospitalization and sad death. Will be seen. Weeks. We urge the public to adhere to our control measures and hope that we will see a decrease in cases beyond vacation, but we Is watching very carefully. “

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