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Hospitals brace for holiday Covid-19 surge, fearing staff shortages, burnout

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LOS ANGELES — Since the middle of October, doctors and nurses at Loma Linda University Medical Center had been warily watching news reports of a spike in Covid-19 patients in the Midwest. They knew that, sooner or later, their own hospital would be hard hit. They just didn’t know when.

Last week, they found out. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 15 Covid-19 patients were admitted to Loma Linda, in what Dr. Michael Matus, chief of hospitalist medicine, described as “a huge rush of patients.”

“We immediately filled one ward and half of another,” Matus said. “It immediately strained the nursing staff. And then the physicians. We try to keep the physicians seeing up to 16 patients. That day, it was up to 24 . . . . It was our biggest day in the last month.”

A new surge of Covid-19 is battering Southern California, bearing down on exhausted health care workers, raising anxiety levels on hospital wards and stoking fears that there might not be enough staff and supplies for the difficult weeks ahead. The coming holidays only make the situation more dire.

The recent rise in Covid-19 patients in the middle of the country has sapped the nation’s reserves of nurses and doctors, as well as masks, gloves and other protective equipment. Good news about vaccines offers hope for the future, but it’s the present that worries those who care for California’s sickest patients.

For the week ended Thursday, the most recent statistics available, the number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients rose 40% in Los Angeles County. In San Bernardino County, home to Loma Linda, the number jumped 45%; in Riverside County, it was up 34%.

“We face one of the most dangerous moments in this pandemic,” Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, noted in a briefing Wednesday.

An exhausted Matus needs no reminder.

“Each morning, we review our overall resources and how to handle patients,” he said. “Staffing is problematic. No system is leaving trained physicians or nurses on standby. . . . There have been multiple days in the morning where the registry (of available nurses) is completely empty.”

Although new therapies “are giving us a fighting shot in the majority of patients,” Matus said, it is difficult seeing “the stress in everybody’s eyes. (Patients) come to the hospital short of breath. They meet me fully masked. Everybody’s just petrified.”

Dr. Anil Perumbeti, medical director for the intensive care unit at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, said the staff has taken pride in being able to work at a fast pace and high level throughout the pandemic. But there is a cost.

“There’s definitely (been) two-week periods of time where nobody makes it out of the Covid ICU, no one gets better enough to be transferred out, there are multiple deaths, there are no success stories, no one gets better,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any amount of experience that makes that OK or makes you feel like you did the best you could.”

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“Some people will just pop in,” she said.

The olives from community milling day are milled as one batch. The percentage of olives contributed is the overall total represents the amount of olive oil each contributor gets to take home. The pulp and pits are reused for mulch at Il Fiorello, or sold to farmers to use as feed for animals.

The state-of-the-art mill was purchased in 2012 from a company in Italy. Il Fiorello gradually upgraded from older mill equipment until the company grew so much it needed a bigger mill for processing.

The mill processes the olives through a mixing and centrifuge process that separates the pits and skins from the oil. The pits are crushed and can be used in a variety of ways.

When the olives are too watery or too dry, it will affect how much oil will be taken out of the fruit.

Il Fiorello has not been just passively going about the year, rather they have made some changes and plan to continue to make them over the coming From Page A1 Canvassers participates in a very straightforward and perfunctory process,” John Pirich, a longtime elections attorney in Michigan, said in the groups’ press release. “Auditing the election is not within its scope of duties; the board is only responsible for reviewing the vote calculations and signing them.

“This process has nothing to do with discretion or the board members’ political leanings.”

If the board certifies the results, under state law, Michigan’s 16 electoral votes will go Biden, who won the state by 14 times the margin Trump won by four years ago. The Electoral College meets on Dec. 14.

Many legal experts believe if the board doesn’t certify the results, the courts will order the results be certified.

On Saturday, Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel asked the state to conduct a “full, transFrom Page A1 a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision to move forward.

The U.S. reported 1,870 fatalities on Friday, in a week in which the death rate rapidly rose, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.

The daily average of deaths over the past week is now 1,440, compared with 1,177 the week From Page A1 college students who are returning home from school for the holidays, should be considered part of different households,” the CDC said in an advisory last week ahead of the holiday.

“In-person gatherings that bring together family members or friends from different households, including college students returning home, pose

Susan Hiland/Daily Republic Brunch during the season’s final community milling day was quiet with just a few people to enjoy the expanded seating at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company, Sunday. The patio area now has heaters, a pellet stove and blankets for anyone who wishes to sit outside.

year. Il Fiorello has added a barn behind the milling equipment building, which they will use as a clean room to bottle and store olive oil.

“I want to live out here,” Sievers joked. “I love the building so much.”

Along with the expansion of space, they have plans for more patio space, a bocce court, in addition to a small greens area that could be used for weddings, picnics and all kinds of events.

Liz McQueeney, owner of McQueeny Goat Ranch, parent audit” before certification, noting other states like Georgia “have taken discretionary steps” in determining their results.

But Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top elections official, has said an audit cannot be completed prior to the certification of results because “election officials do not have legal access to the documents needed to complete audits until the certification.”

Still, Cox and McDaniel have argued it’s possible to investigate some claims made in the affidavits and unbalanced poll books in Wayne County while still complying with the Dec. 8 deadline for before. That’s the highest level since last spring, when the outbreak in New York and the northeast pushed fatalities to a daily peak of more than 2,600 in late April.

As the virus rages on, hospitals are filling up across the country. Even in the best case scenario of a timely vaccine approval, state governments will struggle to get the rampaging virus under control. And they must do so amid a varying levels of risk.”

The CDC named airports – along with bus stations, gas stations, rest stops and other means of public transportation – as areas where people can be exposed to the virus.

Although the number of passengers on U.S. flights declined slightly after Friday’s total, Saturday still saw 984,369 people board planes, according to the TSA. Last Thursday, the TSA recorded lives up the road from Il Fiorello and just started bringing her olives last year in conjunction with her neighbor.

“I have four olive trees. They have grown and are finally producing enough olives to do this,” McQueeney said. “She puts her olives with mine.”

McQueeney said she and her neighbor loved the olive oil from last year and have used most of it.

“We are down to a little bit and my husband is carefully measuring it out,” McQueeney said. — Mike Shirkey, certification. The states are required to certify by the “safe harbor” date or invite court or congressional intervention.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, tweeted Sunday that the election process “MUST be free of intimidation and threats.”

“Whether the Board of Canvassers certifies our results tomorrow or decides to take the full time allowed by law to perform their duties, it’s inappropriate for anyone to exert pressure on them,” Shirkey said.

Chatfield, Shirkey and five other Michigan lawmakers traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Trump on Friday. Chatfield and Shirkey said they used their time with the nation’s leader chaotic transfer of presidential power and a lack of clear policy guidance. Making matters more challenging is the lack of confidence many Americans have in the safety of a vaccine.

Only about half of adults say they would get a Covid-19 vaccine if one were available, according to a September survey from the Pew Research Center.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control 907,332 air travelers.

During the early weeks of the pandemic, the number of U.S. air travelers recorded by the TSA regularly hovered near or below 100,000 passengers. Those totals have increased considerably in the months since, despite the ongoing surges of coronavirus cases throughout the country.

The U.S. has recorded more confirmed cases of

So she was relieved to hear her olive oil would be ready later in the week.

Hers was a small match this year of just 21 pounds, but will still make for a bottle of olive oil.

Il Fiorello also offers a weekend prix fixe lunch each Friday through Sunday, by reservation only. The menu changes weekly.

Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company is located at 2625 Mankas Corner Road in rural Fairfield. Call 864-1529 for more informa-

Michigan: Certification may be delayed

‘Whether the Board of Canvassers certifies our results tomorrow or decides to take the full time allowed by law to perform their duties, it’s inappropriate for anyone to exert pressure on them.’

Michigan senate majority leader

tion or visit ilfiorello.com. to push for additional federal relief to help the state cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Sunday, the House speaker said Trump didn’t ask lawmakers to interfere in the election certification process.

“That just simply didn’t happen,” Chatfield said during the Fox News interview.

“When the president calls, you take that meeting,” he said, calling it a “historic day.”

Chatfield said Republicans want to look into “irregularities” and these “reports of fraud.” However, there’s been no evidence released yet that calls into question Biden’s 154,000vote victory in Michigan.

“I don’t think transparency is too much to ask for,” he said.

In an interview Tuesday, Shirkey said he doesn’t expect the results of the state’s presidential race to change.

One of the four members of the Board of State Canvassers is Aaron Van Langevelde, an attorney who works for the Michigan House Republican Policy Office as a policy adviser

Vaccine: 1,870 deaths reported Friday

and deputy legal counsel. and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will issue recommendations on which segments of the population should receive the vaccine first, Slaoui said on NBC.

With 24 hours of an approval of a vaccine, the jabs “will be moving and located in the areas where each state will have told us where they want the vaccine

Travel: Increases odds of getting Covid

doses,” he said. Covid-19 than any other country, with more than 12 million. It’s also suffered the most deaths of any country, with more than 255,000.

“Travel can increase the chance of getting and spreading the virus that causes Covid-19,” the CDC wrote in its Thanksgiving advisory. “Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others.”