Hospitals in California’s Central Valley Flooded with COVID-19 Patients [chcf.org]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 9/17/216:00 AM

By Heather Tirado Gilligan, Healthcare Foundation, September 14, 2021

A surge of serious COVID-19 cases fueled by the delta variant has swamped hospitals in California’s Central Valley. The region’s health care system is so overwhelmed that Fresno County’s interim health officer implored county residents at a press conference to do more to control transmission.

“Please wear a mask,” Rais Vohra, MD, pleaded as he waved a black disposable mask. “If you want to know how you can make sure your loved one has a bed in a hospital tonight if they have a heart attack, then wear a mask. . . Please know that we are begging you on behalf of the health care system.”

By early September, more than 400 people were receiving inpatient treatment for COVID-19 in the county’s hospitals, Tim Sheehan reported in theFresno Bee. That included more than 90 patients in intensive care units.

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