Los Angeles County hospitals are so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that EMS workers were told Monday to ration oxygen, according to reports.
The L.A. County Emergency Medical Services Agency issued a directive Monday detailing the decision. "Given the acute need to conserve oxygen, effective immediately, EMS should only administer supplemental oxygen to patients with oxygen saturation below 90%," the directive said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The directive was made on the same day the county said 7,697 patients were hospitalized with the virus. Of those, at least 21% are in intensive care units.
When the recent surge began, in early-November, there were about 791 people hospitalized with COVID-19. A doctor tends to a.
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