Health
Coronavirus surge in Southern California leaves hospitals on verge of rationing care – CBS News
Some hospitals are so packed patients are being sent hundreds of miles away for treatment.
Hospitals in Southern California are on the verge of rationing care. A Los Angeles County hospital is so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that it’s now assembled a triage team that would ultimately decide the fate of those critically ill.
“The hospital system is bent as far as it can bend and the next sound may be a snap,” said Cliff Daniels, chief strategy officer at Methodist Hospital of Southern California.
“It is the unimaginable decisions that would have to be made to deny care to people…
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