California Is The New Covid-19 Epicenter.
The Golden State is suffering with a massive Coronavirus surge that is straining hospitals to the max. (NPR.org)
“Nearly all of California is under stay at home orders as ICU capacity statewide hovers around 2%. In Southern California and the 12-county San Joaquin Valley area, ICU capacity has been exhausted, leaving some facilities to go into “surge” mode, putting critical patients in other parts of the hospital like emergency rooms or operating recovery rooms.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has a firm grip on America as we enter the holiday week. I hope people take heed and start following CDC directives and severely curtain their festive socializing. The information of the new vaccines becoming available will probably lead to some relaxation of personal precautions, combined with no national leadership to advise otherwise, we will inevitably see more surges before this is all over. We will need to mask up for many many months into 2021, probably for most of the year.
