Gavin Newsom assured they have installed 4 temporary hospitals in California.
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Last Monday, the California governor gave a balance from his private office to his home, where he is isolated, reporting the latest coronavirus figures in the state, Start the week with alarming data on the eve of the Christmas holidays.
Gavin Newsom assured that throughout California, intensive care bed availability is 2.5%As a result, the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions do not have the capacity to receive more critical patients, which is why mobile hospitals have been established to meet the demand.
According to Newsom, the state stands creates temporary health centers that make it possible to relieve the burden on the health system, but the current problem they face is the availability of qualified personnel, for which he has solicited federal assistance from the disaster medical assistance team as well as from the Department of Defense, adding 607 specialists across 75 facilities in 24 counties.
The president assured that 62 patients have currently been transferred to the four temporary hospitals currently established, namely:
Imperial Valley College with 23 patients
Sacramento Sleep Train Arena with 16 patients
Porterville Development Center with 5 patients
Fairview Developmental Center with 18 patients currently.
Newsom assured that these facilities will receive more patients once they have more trained staff to take good care of them, but he assured that the number of people hospitalized for illness has increased by 63% in the past 14 days, making it number of people in a hospital bed has risen to 17,190 patients.
Cases keep increasing
In the last 24 hours, the state confirmed a total 37,892 new coronavirus infections, which increased the percentage of positivity to 12% over the number of tests performed. The state has a total of 1,892,348 infections since March last year.
For their part, deaths from coronavirus disease complications have also increased, leading them to go away 2,741 people died in the past two weeks and a total of 22,676 deaths.
The governor asked the Californians not to travel during Christmas and to keep the celebration as intimate as possible and only with the family core of the house.
More doses of the vaccine on the way
The state began its coronavirus vaccination campaign last week with the immunization developed by Pfizer, delivers more than 70,000 doses, but Newsom assured this Monday that following FDA approval of the Moderna-developed vaccine, the state you will receive a total of 672,600 doses this week.
The president assured that Moderna’s vaccine doesn’t require delicate storage like Pfizer’s, so it would be easier to distribute in rural areas of the state. The first doses of this lab’s version go to the Del Norte, Orange, San Luis Obispo, San Joaquin, Tehama and Tuolumne counties.
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