Stay At Home Wins Overwhelming Support From Californians – VC Running Low On ICU Rooms – Farmworkers In Good Shape
Written by 991KBU on July 8, 2020
Keeping kids at home .. keeping everyone at home … has overwhelming popular support across California.
Support for staying at home ranges above 75 percent … according to the California Health Care Foundation.
Their latests statewide survey says Californians still overwhelmingly support continuing to shelter in place as long as needed to curb the spread of coronavirus,
The share of Californians who say the shelter-in-place order is being relaxed too quickly has increased from 43% three weeks ago to 53% in this survey.
More than 75% of Californians continue to say they follow recommended behaviors to slow the spread of the coronavirus “all” or “most” of the time.
89% of Californians say they routinely wear a mask in public spaces all or most of the time, about 12 percentage points higher than in late April
And 90% say they stay at least six feet away from others in public spaces all or most of the time.
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Turning now to the disease … the number of cases of COVID 19 in Malibu has again inched up.
57 cases confirmed in Malibu alone.
And there are also 57 cases over in the Santa Monica Mountains.
4 thousand new cases reported in L A COunty yesterday.
The total … over 120 thousand.
The death toll in Los Angeles County alone … yesterday … 46.
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Ventura County was about a week ahead of L A County in reopening.
And now … Ventura County is running low on hospital beds as COVID-19 cases keep increasing.
One hospital … the Ventura County Medical Center … has run out of beds in its intensive care unit.
Another ing of that hospital is being converted into a surge I C U facility.
One hospital administrator told KEY-3 newsin Santa Barbara that “Early on when people want to open things up and people were interested in loosening the restrictions, over and over again I heard them say our hospitals are empty,
“And now we are the opposite. Our hospitals are very full.”
Ventura County Public Health said as of Monday there were nearly 90 coronavirus patients hospitalized, including 30 in the intensive care unit, leaving just 24 ICU beds available across the county. At Ventura County Medical Center there are no ICU beds, so the hospital’s surge plan is now taking effect.
“We have some ICU overflow into the emergency room which is not unusual, but now we have exceeded that capacity,” said Fankhauser.
“We have this afternoon to make our plans to moving ICU patients into another wing in the hospital.”
Good news about the farmworkers dormitory stricken by CVOD just up the road from Malibu … in Oxnard.
Most have been released from quarantine.
And only one worker has continued breathing difficulties and was admitted to the hospital.
That worker is now doing better, according to a report in the Ventura County Star. Vargas.
216 farmworkers who live in a dorm just off the road to Malibu … and all but 12 a had tested positive at the dorm-style facility.
Up to five farmworkers sleep in bunkbeds in each room at the dorm . which houses people from Latin America countries admitted to the U-S under special visas to pick food in the fields of Ventura County.
