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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 31, 2020, 06:48:47 pm
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L.A. County Supervisor Requests Return of USNS Mercy to Help with Coronavirus
Joel B. Pollak31 Dec 2020399
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L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn has written to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to ask that he request the return of the hospital ship U.S.N.S. Mercy to provide additional hospital bed capacity as the area struggles with an ongoing coronavirus surge.
The Daily Breeze reported:
In a letter to Newsom on Wednesday, Dec. 30, Supervisor Janice Hahn sought the return of the Mercy and its accompanying medical staff to the Port of Los Angeles.
The goal would be to bolster staffing and space, which are spread thin in the county as the number of new cases each day has climbed over 13,000 and as ICU space dwindles.
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“Emergency departments throughout LA County are overwhelmed and cannot take in all patients in need of urgent care,†Hahn wrote. “The USNS Mercy can add more emergency care capacity for patients not suffering from COVID-19 related health complications. This will in turn alleviate the burden on hospitals, so they can focus on severely ill COVID-19 patients.â€
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