In response to the dramatically increasing cases of Coronavirus, on January 5 the California Department of public health issued an order that required 14 counties to delay any “non-life-threatening” surgeries to provide beds for the incoming covid patients. These orders also apply to any county where hospital ICU beds are close to the limit. For the next three weeks, covid patients might be transported from Southern California to San Joaquin Valley in Northern from the critical outbreaks in LA.
Because many people failed to follow community safety guidelines and good sanitary practice over the holidays, cases have spiked up close to six folds in the last two months. Health care officials fear that this will not be the peak of our cases, but with more to come, which will heavily overload the work of our healthcare system, especially with the discovery of the new strain, which could be spreading more rapidly within our communities. Many hospitals have been struggling with staffing health care workers per each patient along with an overall delay of emergency care due to the overload of patient admission.
Even with vaccines being available right now. It will still be a long journey for it to be administered to the majority, creating herd immunity. If the number of cases doesn't decrease soon, we might face a crisis of hospitals and healthcare facilities not being able to provide the proper care to patients.
Although we are very desperate to get our old lives back, right now is a critical time that will determine when we can slowly lift our precautions. We cannot afford to jeopardize more lives submitted to covid. Therefore, we must do our part to keep us, and others safe
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I think it's really interesting how we were more precautious last march - may when the virus was relatively spreading slower than is it now.
Right now is the ultimate peak and I think being as safe as we were back then goes a long way. Considering that the vaccine will be available to more of us soon also signifies the first step to herd immunity.
Healthcare officials are putting their lives at risk everyday and practically begging people to stay home as much as they can as ICU capacities are close to 0% in some parts of California. With all they're doing and risking each day, if we have the privilege to be able to stay home we really should be.
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