California is the worst-hit state in the United States.
On the 3rd local time, California health officials announced that the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 reached a record high that day.
Los Angeles County, the “epicenter” of the California pandemic, has long been overwhelmed by the local health care system.
California health officials announced on the 3rd local time that the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 exceeded 20,000 that day, reaching 21,510, a record high.
Worse still, the local health system is already overwhelmed and unable to deal with the continuous incoming patients.
According to local media reports, in Los Angeles County, California, where the pandemic is most affected, ambulances are forced to wait in the hospital parking lot for at least eight hours before it is the turn of patients to receive treatment.
Guevara, a nurse at a medical center in Los Angeles County, California, United States: The rate of admission of patients is much faster than the discharge of patients. In this battle, we are far overloaded.
Casey Chidster, Director of the Emergency Medical Service Bureau of Los Angeles County, California, USA: Our ambulances are running out of nearly, and the emergency phone waiting for response is getting longer and longer.
California funeral home in the United States, the United States, refused to accept more bodies.
In addition to hospitals running at full capacity, many funeral homes in Los Angeles County have also exceeded their limits and had to refuse to accept the remains of any new deceased patients.
Maldonado, the owner of a local funeral home, said in an interview with the media last December that her funeral home has no room for it.
Maldonado, owner of California’s “Continent Funeral Home”: Our funeral home is full, and we can’t hold more bodies.
However, a month later, the situation did not improve, but worsened.
At present, the funeral home in Maldonado handles about 30 bodies on average every day, six times the normal number in previous years.
Having exceeded the processing capacity, Maldonado began to refuse to take more of his remains and tried to seek help from other funeral homes, but found that almost all funeral homes faced the same dilemma.
She said frankly, “I have been engaged in the funeral industry for 40 years, and I never thought this would happen.”
Ackerman, director of the California Funeral Association, said that the situation of the local funeral home was already very difficult, but he was worried that worse things were ahead.
