Lockdowns likely to be extended as California hospitals fill California is expected Tuesday to extend strict stay-at-home orders in areas where intensive care units are running out of bedsLOS ANGELES -- California is expected Tuesday to extend strict stay-at-home orders in areas where intensive care units are running out of beds, after Gov. The Department of Public Health is sending an emergency medical team to Los Angeles to help better distribute patients among hospitals. Over the weekend, most Los Angeles County hospitals reached a crisis point where they had to divert ambulances because they didn’t have beds available. Los Angeles County, which accounts for a quarter of the state’s 10 million residents, has about 40% of the state’s 24,000 deaths. ———Associated Press writers Janie Har in San Francisco, Don Thompson in Sacramento and Christopher Weber, Stefanie Dazio and John Antczak in Los Angeles contributed.

Source: ABC News December 29, 2020 04:52 UTC