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COVID Causes EMS Care Rationing in California
As of January 4, in Los Angeles, COVID-19 is killing people — but not by infecting them.
As a result of the reported surge in COVID cases in the city, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency issued a directive limiting emergency care for some trauma victims.
According to the memo directing EMS transport of patients in traumatic and nontraumatic cardiac arrest, some patients will not receive emergency ambulance transport to a hospital for treatment if emergency responders think they are unlikely to be successfully revived.
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