Thread by @ReshmaGuptaMD

🔹️LA in Crisis🔹️ 1/
"He's dying! Aren't you going to help him?"
Are we deaf to death & screams for help from healthcare community?
@MSNBC @NBCNews @CNN

🔹️5 key hospitals collapsing, LA >10M residents
🔹️Limited oxygen
🔹️EMS diverted >12 hrs
🔹️EMS leaves pts @home

2/ "Are you going to pull the oxygen off and give it to someone else?"
latimes.com/california/sto…

#ThisCouldHaveBeenPrevented
#TraumatizingCommunities
#TraumitizingHealthcareWorkers

3/ High flow oxygen is not functioning because the infrastructure cannot handle it. Crisis for 5 key LA medical centers caring for millions of Americans.
cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/…

4/ “It was like practicing Civil War medicine. It was the worst shift of my life,” the worker said.
Covid pts 62-81% in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods

5/ Paramedics and EMS are declining to transport patients some less severely ill patients whom they might normally take to the hospital. #medicalcollapse
latimes.com/california/sto…

6/ Forced into diversion but if all hospitals are on divert, we limit safe care.
We need to ⬆️ focus:
-share patients across medical centers to ⬆️ staffing, supplies
-military support no delay
Why wait for hospitals to crash?
@ashishkjha @AnishPMahajan

latimes.com/california/sto…

7/ Please stop golfing!
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@kylegriffin1

How can we turn our backs to millions of Americans at risk of death?
🔹️Have you seen someone die of Covid? I have.
🔹️Are you okay with this?
#DoSomething #OpenDoors #CallBackup

Can someone confirm if true?
Finances can't shut doors to poor
👇🏽
google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…

Another reason for the intensity of the LA surge...
Initially due to structural barriers, policy decisions, ind behaviors.
Rampant viral replication leads to mutations
@boback @drfolamay @WrayCharles @DrEricWei @AnshuAbhat @LeeSquitieriMD @chrissyteigen
latimes.com/california/sto…