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October. On October 3, the CDPH reported over 810,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 16,000 deaths in the course of the pandemic. [159] In the first week of October, the average new daily case count is around 3,000 and the statewide new case positivity rate, although varies by county, is below 4%.
Policies and activities COVID-19 pandemic. California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
On April 22, Newsom ordered a review on autopsies of people who died in December 2019 in order to find out when COVID-19 arrived in California. On April 24, Newsom announced a program that will deliver free meals to elderly residents who meet the program's requirements.
Dr. Mark Rosenberg, president American College of Emergency Physicians. In late August, Texas hospitals were suddenly overwhelmed with an average of more than 1,700 emergency patients each day. "All of a sudden, it's an exponential rise again in the middle of the summer," stated the general medicine physician at the University of Texas Medical Hospital in Dallas. Staffing was also more of a ...
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CDC data showed the rate of hospital admissions with COVID-19 in Los Angeles County at 11 per 100,000 for the week ending July 14, 11.7 as of July 21 and 10.8 in Thursday’s update.
Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance the state's budget. The agreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and ...
In 2000, the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) determined that a uniform code system was needed after three people were killed in a shooting incident at a hospital after the wrong emergency code was called. While codes for fire (red) and medical emergency (blue) were similar in 90% of California hospitals queried, 47 different ...