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(KMJ) – The state says hospitals here in the Central Valley and down in Southern California are swamped by the coronavirus pandemic. So now it has ordered medical facilities in the northern part of the state that have room to begin accepting patients from hospitals that are out of intensive care beds.
The public health order issued Tuesday night also states that 14 counties are immediately ordered to delay nonessential “and non-life threatening” surgeries in order to provide beds. The order, which will last at least three weeks, also applies to any county where ICU capacity to treat COVID-19 patients is bottoming out, as is the case here in the San Joaquin Valley.
