Los Angeles County ambulance crews told not to transport patients with little chance of survival

“Effective immediately, due to the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on EMS and 9-1-1 Receiving Hospitals, adult patients (18 years of age or older) in blunt traumatic and nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) shall not be transported [if] return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is not achieved in the field,”

If after 20 minutes of effort the EMS crew cannot get your heart pumping, there you’ll stay. Makes sense, but, yeesh. They are also beginning to ration *oxygen.*And when an ambulance does take you to a hospital in some cases the ambulance waits outside the hospital for *hours* before the patient can be brought in due to the emergency rooms being overloaded. And this means that fewer ambulances are available due to being tied up.

More reasons to avoid California.