It is no exaggeration to say that the COVID situation in California, especially Southern California, is horrific. Overwhelmed by rapidly accelerating numbers of cases, and lacking the space or resources to properly treat patients, doctors and hospital administrators are now discussing triage and rationing care. The Schiller Institute’s call for building a global healthcare system—training a youth medical corps and implementing a crash program to build hospitals in record time, as China did—is urgently needed. Otherwise, the murderous policies of Joe Biden’s medical adviser Ezekiel “EZ Kill” Emanuel will become the norm.
Yesterday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that stay-at-home orders for the southern part of the state have been extended for another 2-3 weeks. Detailed reports in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times document the level of crisis in all Los Angeles County hospitals that are so inundated with patients that they’re putting them in conference rooms, gift shops, hallways, lobbies or in quickly-constructed tents in parking lots. Even so, they are running out of space. The L.A. County-USC Medical Center, as of the evening of Dec. 27, didn’t have one available bed for at least 30 patients who needed either intensive or immediate levels of care, and the hospital had to close its doors for all ambulance traffic for 12 hours. The situation is the same in the Community Hospital of Huntington Park, and Memorial Hospital of Gardena.
