SACRAMENTO – California’s top health official announced that the stay-at-home restrictions instituted three weeks ago, as ICU bed capacity fell below 15% eventually bottoming out at 0.0% in Southern California and other parts of the state, were being extended.
California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly speaking to reporters Tuesday in a weekly briefing held on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, said that the Southern California region- in particular Los Angeles County, has virtually no ICU capacity to treat COVID-19 patients.
While he refused to set a timeline, Ghaly acknowledged that relief from the restrictions was heavily dependent on ICU capacities and added that officials were alarmed at the potential
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