The region's emergency departments have seen a significant increase in traffic driven in part by demand for coronavirus-related testing and care.
The emergency medical director of San Diego County issued a special alert Wednesday after the region’s emergency departments saw a significant increase in traffic driven in part by demand for coronavirus-related testing and care.
the sudden increase in emergency visits Wednesday coincided with further evidence that the pandemic continues to worsen in San Diego County. There were 3,653 new positive test results listed for Tuesday, the largest single-day number published since Jan. 7, when 4,550 positives were recorded in a single day, the peak for last winter’s surge.Thursday’s total, 20,198, is one of the highest in the pandemic.
That tracks with observations worldwide that the Omicron variant seems to cause less-severe illness, especially among vaccinated patients, than previous variants did.A sharp spike in COVID cases, fueled in part by the Omicron variant, prompts health experts to urge revelers to scale back New Year’s Eve gatherings.
Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego reported that 289 of the 1,173 tests its lab performed Wednesday came back positive, for a positivity rate of nearly 25%. Some percentage will get sick enough to need serious help, and with the larger numbers of infections expected to occur in the next few weeks, there could still be enough sheer volume to push hospitals past the brink, she said.
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