Doctors at L-A County’s USC Medical Center say there is not a massive flood of serious COVID cases in their hospital.
Chief medical officer Brad Spellberg with the numbers:
“Our COVID situation is, so it reminds me that movie Good Morning Vietnam when he was talking about the weather continued blankedy blankiness it’s just the same, it’s not changed, it’s been the same, it’s like two months of the same. You can see county wide numbers with the top graph, it’s just yeah… it’s like plateaued and it’s not going down it’s sort of trickle up a little but really not much it’s just been like that we’re getting thousands of cases per week across the county.The numbers and LAC COVID positive test have continued to go up but this is it because we’re seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease getting admitted if you go to the bottom graph it’s the same thing, we’re seeing a lot of people with mild disease in urgent care or ED who go home and do not get admitted and all those who are admitted they are 90% of the time not admitted due to COVID, only 10% of her COVID positive admissions are admitted due to COVID virtually none of them go to the ICU and when they do go to the ICU it is not for pneumonia they are not intubated, they’re not these horrible hundred percent FiO2, we haven’t seen one of those since we in February it’s been months what we see is electrolyte abnormalities or somebody who had autoimmune attack of the nerves and could that have been related to COVID that’s the kind of stuff that were seeing, it is just not the same pandemic as it was despite all the media hype to the contrary… and a lot of people have bad colds is what we’re seeing.
LA County USC is issuing a new statement emphasizing that COVID is still a big concern. The statement does not, however, contradict what the doctors stated about those numbers. The doctors revelations do appear to contradict the LA County statements.