A Marine who works inside the Pentagon has coronavirus, the Marines say, making this the first military person based there to test positive
Coronavirus case numbers are "artificially low" due to lack of testing, Los Angeles nurse saysElissa Rill, an emergency room nurse at the Northridge Hospital Medical Center in South California, told CNN she believes the number of reported cases in the Los Angeles area is"artificially low" due to lack of testing.
"I have no doubt that we have sent home hundreds of probable people that have corona, but we just don't have the resources to be able to test everyone," Rill said, describing what she is seeing in her emergency room. According to Rill, the two Covid-19 testing options are Los Angeles County Health and Quest Diagnosis, which are both taking about eight to 10 days to turn around a test result in her area.
"A lot of people that come to the ER just want to get swabs, and unless they have active symptoms, they don't, because there's just not enough test kits," Rill said."Right now we're so backed up that we just, it's impossible to just test everyone." Northridge Hospital, which is in Los Angeles County, has at most 30 ventilators for the entire hospital, Rill said, and most of them are already in use in the 24-bed Intensive Care Unit. Despite having an overflow ICU with capacity for eight more beds, there are not enough ventilators for every ICU bed, let alone other areas of the hospital that might need to use ventilators.
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