In California's Central Valley, hospitals are filling with COVID-19 patients and health officials are raising alarms, saying things could get worse.
The summer coronavirus surge caused by the highly contagious Delta variant is showing signs of slowing in some parts of California but worsening in others.with hospitals filling and health officials raising alarms, saying things could get worse before they get better.The San Joaquin Valley, the Sacramento area and rural Northern California are now the regions of the state being hit the hardest by COVID-19 hospitalizations on a per capita basis, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis.
Fresno County has also been forced to transfer severely ill patients far out of the region — as far away as Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, a 140-mile drive from Fresno. Fresno County is also suffering a nursing shortage. But there are few nurses to spare. Even L.A. County’s public hospital system is unable to staff all of its beds due to shortages.
Hospitalization rates are still relatively high throughout California for those suffering from COVID-19.
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