In an effort to ease some of the burden, LA County officials have reportedly identified some of hardest it ER's and deployed county workers to help offload patients from ambulances
The combination of COVID-19 cases surging and health care workers themselves getting sick is overwhelming staff and hospitals around Los Angeles County.“We’re running out of humans. We’re running out of humans to take care of other humans,” Nerissa Black, a registered nurse at Henry Mayo Hospital, said.
LA County has reportedly ID’d the 20 emergency rooms hit the hardest and sent county workers to help offload ambulances. “We don’t want to see these lines. We don’t want to see folks have to line up, particularly on this side of the bus. Those are walk-ins versus those that have appointments. So, we continue to provide more support, to expand these sites, more personnel, more expertise and more testing locations,” Newsom said.
“If you’re asymptomatic and you have to, to wait five days for a result, you’ve already been carrying it,” she said. “At this point, it feels like parents are going to have to navigate sort of a combination of testing at school and waiting for labs, but also at home testing.”