A top Los Angeles health official says COVID cases are not flooding hospitals. Dr. Christina Ghaly –who is a medical doctor–runs L.A. County Health Services and its many hospitals. At the County Board of Supervisors meeting, She informs County Supervisor Katherine Barger that only 20-percent of COVID cases end up in hospitals. Also, many COVID cases diagnosed by hospitals are in patients that ended up there for unrelated reasons.
“Because only 20-percent of the patients who are COVID-positive are admitted for their COVID, that means that the remainder aren’t adding to the volume at the hospitals. So, they’re a volume in the hospitals that was going to be admitted irrespective of their positive COVID status, so it’s not contributing to an overwhelming of the hospitals.”
