“Our hospitals are under siege, and our model shows no end in sight.”Hospitals in L.A. County are filling up as never before. For much of September and October, about 100 patients a day with COVID-19 were being newly admitted into hospitals in L.A. County daily. There remain only about 100 available ICU beds in L.A. County, which is home to 10 million people. 1 in 80 people in L.A. County are believed to be contagious with the coronavirusCumulatively, there have been more than 567,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 8,572 COVID-19 deaths in L.A. County. An estimated 1 in 80 people in L.A. County are now contagious with the virus; that’s far worse than in late September, when county scientists calculated that 1 in 880 county residents were infectious.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2020 15:00 UTC