Covid: Los Angeles, 'ambulances select patients'

(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, JAN 5 - Ambulance operators in Los Angeles County, California, have been asked not to transport patients who have a very low chance of survival to the hospital. The directive comes from the health authorities as the region risks reaching 1,000 COVID deaths a day, with hospitals almost collapsing. The personnel of the emergency departments, on the other hand, have been told to direct the oxygen. New York issued a similar directive last April, at a climax of the pandemic, suggesting not admitting patients it couldn't treat on the spot, such as for heart attacks or strokes.

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