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California in crisis with coronavirus cases and deaths surging so high 911 dispatchers can't keep up, and it's just call after call after call.
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The amount of 911 calls we receive and send our ambulances to is just out of control.
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M s workers then wait sometimes up to four hours until their patient is admitted with hospital beds near capacity.
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And I see you workers in short supply, many sick with co vid themselves like it.
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USCs Keck School of Medicine, where Carl Chazanov ski is an ER doctor.
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This is the worst medical disaster that I've seen in over 30 years of practicing an emergency medicine.
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On Monday, to stark memos were issued by the L.
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A County Emergency Medical Services Agency.
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One instructed paramedics to conserve their use of oxygen.
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The other told them not to bring patients to hospitals who appeared to have little chance of survival.
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The steepness of the slyness frightening.
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L.
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A County public health director, Dr Barbara Ferrer, on Monday blamed holiday parties and travel for a spike so high in her area it is killing one person every 15 minutes with L A County on its way to possibly more than 1000 deaths a week.
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We're likely to experience the worst conditions in January that we face the entire pandemic, and that's hard to imagine.
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California is one of four states that have detected the new variant of the virus first found in the UK, the others being New York, Florida and Colorado.
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Doctor Ferrer told L.
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A residents to quote, take every precaution possible as one in five people in the county have tested positive, assume that this deadly invisible virus is everywhere.
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Looking for a willing host for those feeling isolated after months of strict measures for rare reminded L.
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A residents that it's quote better to be lonely than to be sick.