The latest coronavirus surge is heavily impacted Santa Clara County just before New Year’s Eve, where some ambulances had to wait for seven to nine hours to admit their patients into emergency rooms.
Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the countyâs Emergency Medical Service Agency confirmed the long wait times.
âRight now in most hospitals we have some ICU capacity and others are more impacted but they work together talk to each other multiple times a day to make sure that patients get the care that they need,” Alexiou said.
She says since those long wait times between December 29 and 30, the wait times to check-in at county hospitals have come down to just under an hour.
County data shows there are only 10 ICU beds left before capacity is reached and hospitals have to put patients in the 12 staffed âsurge bedsâ set up in anticipation of overcrowding during the pandemic.
County officials say EMS also allows fire department ambulances to help transport patients. They transported six patients last week.
â Marco Siler-Gonzales (@mijo_marco)
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