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Surges of COVID-19 patients are threatening to overwhelm hospitals across the nation. CNN reports at least 123,639 people across the country were in the hospital with the novel coronavirus on Saturday. The COVID Tracking Project says that marks the 32nd consecutive day that the number of hospitalizations has exceeded 100,000. Cases skyrocketed after the Thanksgiving holiday. The fallout form Christmas and New Year's celebrations are still unfolding. Johns Hopkins University data reveals that as of Saturday, more than 20.4 million people have been infected with the virus in the US. At least 350,186 people have died from the illness.
Mexico City, Dec 15 (EFE).- Hospitals treating Covid-19 patients in Mexico's capital are being pushed to the limits of their capacity, a state of affairs that is forcing some people to scramble to find an available bed for their loved ones.That was the experience of Virginia Mariela, who recently spent six hours searching for a hospital that would admit her sister. "It was horrible. We visited like seven hospitals," she told Efe on Tuesday. (Camera: ULISES ANDRADE VELA).SHOT LIST: HEALTH WORKERS COLLECT SWAP SAMPLES FROM CITIZENS, FAMILY MEMBERS OF COVID-19 PATIENTS WAIT FOR UPDATES ON THEIR LOVED ONES AND PARAMEDICS TRANSFER A COVID-19 PATIENT TO A MEXICAN SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTE HOSPITAL IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
San Diego, Jan 21(EFE/EPA).- Health personnel at the Sharp Grossmont and Sharp Coronado hospitals in La Mesa treat patients with COVID-19. The city of San Diego has registered an increase in infections that is causing the saturation of hospital beds in the ICU.(Camera: ETIENNE LAURENT)SHOT LIST: ICU FOOTAGE OF SHARP GROSSMONT AND SHARP CORONADO HOSPITALS IN LA MESA (SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA).
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
Nairobi (Kenya), Aug 7 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Daniel Irungu).- Kenyan welder Meshack Otieno began making hospital beds in December 2018, in a bid to help patients who are bedridden in their homes and they cannot afford imported hospital beds.Since the pandemic began, Otieno has been working making hospital beds, which he assures, they are more durable compared to imported ones, as they use metal, and that they are also more affordable.FOOTAGE OF BEDS IN JUJA HOSPITAL, KiAMBU, KENYA.SOUNDBITES OF Meshack Otieno, WELDER:00:00 - 00:06 - "My name is Meshack Otieno. I am a welder in Juja."00:09 -00: 14 - "I make hospital beds and started making them in December 2018."00:15 - 00:23 - "The only reason I entered this sector is that I realized that there are many patients at home."00:24 - 00:33 - "They are patients who are at home and cannot walk or do anything unless they are catered for."00:34 - 00:42 - "I did not enter this business because of COVID-19 but to attend to our patients who are at home and can't import beds."00: 43-00: 51 - "That's why I got into this business, to make locally made Kenyan beds and help them."00:53 - 01:00 - "As a Kenyan, I have really been affected by the disease and it has affected everyone."01:06 - 01:15 - "I beg the county governments to support us, the Juakali artisans, so that we can make these beds, plenty of them so there are no shortages."01:17 - 01:29 - "COVID-19 has affected us as Kenyans and I would be very happy if the county and national governments source these beds from the Juakali artisans."01:30 - 01:35 - "Because I make these beds to the same standards of the imported ones."
New Delhi, Jul 2 (EFE/EPA).- On a scorching summer day, Samarth Thapa was forced to drive around for an entire day with his ailing mother in the frantic hunt for a sickbed from one Delhi hospital to another after she developed clear Covid-19 symptoms.He brought her home in the evening since the government-run as well as private hospitals across the Indian capital, a city of nearly 19 million residents, denied her critical care and refused admission on one or the other pretext.(Camera: HARSIH TYAGI/RAJAT GUPTA).FOOTAGE SHOWS HEALTH AUTHORITIES CARRYING A COFFIN WITH THE BODY OF A COVID-19 PATIENT; COVID-19 TESTING CENTERS; A QUARANTINE FACILITY FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS IN NEW DELHI.
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