Gavin Newsom said they have installed 4 temporary hospitals in California.
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On Monday, the California governor gave a balance from his private home office, where he is isolated, reporting the latest coronavirus figures in the state, starting the week with alarming dates on the eve of the Christmas holidays.
Gavin Newsom assured that Across California, the availability of beds in the intensive care unit is 2.5%, leaving the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions without the capacity to receive more critical patients, so mobile hospitals were created to meet demand.
According to Newsom, the state creates temporary health care centers that allow it to decongest the health system, but the current problem it faces is the availability of qualified staff, for which he requested federal assistance from the disaster medical assistance team, as well as from the Department of Defense, adding 607 specialists distributed in 75 facilities in 24 counties.
The President said that there are currently 62 patients who have been transferred to the four temporary hospitals currently being set up, which are:
Imperial Valley College with 23 patients
Sacramento Sleep Train Arena with 16 patients
Porterville Development Center with 5 patients
Fairview Development Center with 18 patients currently.
Newsom assured that these facilities will receive more patients once they have more trained staff to take care of them properly, but assured that in the last 14 days those hospitalized for the disease have increased by 63%, increasing the number of people in hospital. a hospital bed in 17,190 patients.
Cases continue to grow
In the last 24 hours, the state has confirmed in total 37,892 new coronavirus infections, which raised the percentage of positivity to 12% compared to the number of tests performed. The state has a total of 1,892,348 infections since March last year.
In turn, deaths from complications with coronavirus disease also increased, leaving 2,741 people have died in the last two weeks and a total of 22,676 deaths.
The governor asked Californians not to travel during Christmas and to keep the holiday as intimate as possible and only with the family’s household.
Several doses of vaccine on the way
Last week, the state began its coronavirus vaccination campaign with the immunization developed by Pfizer, providing more than 70,000 doses, but Newsom assured on Monday that, after FDA approval with the vaccine developed by Moderna, the state you will receive a total of 672,600 doses this week.
The president assured that the Moderna vaccine does not require delicate storage like Pfizer, so it would be easier to distribute in rural areas of the state. The first doses in this lab version will go to The counties of Del Norte, Orange, San Luis Obispo, San Joaquin, Tehama and Tuolumne.
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