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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
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says that President Biden "was not informed until this morning" that US Secretary of Defence Chief Lloyd Austin's hospitalization was due to prostate cancer. SOUNDBITE
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is being treated for prostate cancer, the Pentagon says, after he faced criticism for waiting days to inform the White House about his extended hospitalization. SOUNDBITE
More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who have crossed from Gaza into Egypt, arrive in Turkey for treatment in the early hours of Thursday. Two planes carrying the patients, many of them children, landed at Ankara airport shortly after 00:30 am local time (2130 GMT). IMAGES
Sudanese patients suffering from kidney failure undergo dialysis treatment at the Soba Hospital in southern Khartoum. Shelling rocked greater Khartoum as fighting between Sudan's warring generals intensified, despite US sanctions imposed after the collapse of a US- and Saudi-brokered truce. IMAGES
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