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Added on the 16/04/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Rionegro, Apr 13 (EFE) .- Ambulances with six patients in critical condition arrived Tuesday at Combat Air Command No.5 in Rionegro, to initiate an aeromedical transfer.Unfortunately only five survived in the C-295 plane of the Colombian Air Force (FAC), the sixth lost his live to Covid-19. This type of humanitarian missions had to be reactivated due to the collapse of hospitals in Medellin which has registered an ICU occupancy of 98% during the third wave of the pandemic.(Camera: LUIS EDUARDO NORIEGA)SHOT LIST: COMBAT AIR COMMAND NO. 5 IN RIONEGRO, COLOMBIA CARRYING OUT HUMANITARIAN HELP AMID THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.
Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram/Getty Images Forty-three hospital employees at Kaiser Permanente San Jose tested positive for COVID-19 from December 27 to January 1. The outbreak occurred after an emergency room employee briefly wore an inflatable costume to work on Christmas. The costume's fan may have splayed infectious particles across the emergency department. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. A well-meaning gesture at a California hospital may have backfired this Christmas: To celebrate the holiday, an emergency room employee at Kaiser Permanente San Jose briefly wore an inflatable costume to work on December 25.
At least five Los Angeles County hospitals had to turn patients away on Sunday, citing an 'internal disaster.' In the week before Christmas, the state averaged more than 40,000 new coronavirus infections every day. CNN reports that at some area hospitals, aging infrastructure was unable to keep up with the high number of patients needing oxygen. The issue was not the lack of oxygen itself--rather, the buildings were unable to maintain the necessary pressure to deliver the oxygen. Some hospitals are moving COVID-19 patients down to lower floors to make it easier to pump the oxygen through pipes. There are multiple issues involving oxygen delivery to patients, but generally, the problem is not an absolute shortage of oxygen. Dr. Christina Ghaly Director, Los Angeles County Health Services