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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – State officials are being dispatched to hospitals in Los Angeles County due to what authorities are calling “overflow conditions” in emergency rooms.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a support team was headed to Southern California after 96% of hospitals in the county were diverting emergency patients at some point over the weekend due to overcrowding in emergency rooms.
About 96% of county hospitals were on diversion at some point on Saturday vs 33% pre-surge, according to the governor.
On average, hospitals spent roughly 16 hours per day on diversion, leading to the slowing of some routine ER care, Newsom said.
As of Monday, the state officially listed L.A. County with nearly 7,200 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, including more than 1,400 in the ICU.
Newsom said new hospital admissions due to COVID-19 have begun to plateau across the state, except in Southern California.
County health officials Monday reported another 73 coronavirus-related deaths, raising the county’s death toll to 9,555. The county also saw 13,661 new cases, raising the overall total to 733,325.
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