Covid: Los Angeles, 'ambulances select patients'

Ambulance workers in Los Angeles County, California have been instructed not to transport patients with very low chances of survival to the hospital. The directive comes from the health authorities as the region risks reaching 1,000 Covid deaths per day, with hospitals almost collapsing. Instead, emergency department personnel were told to ration oxygen. New York had issued a similar directive last April, at a climax of the pandemic, suggesting not admitting patients who could not be treated on the spot, for example for heart attacks or strokes.