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Tough choices loom as ICU beds fill up countywide | Paul Sisson

San Diego News Fix
San Diego News Fix
Episode • Dec 10, 2020 • 18m

A second-straight day with San Diego County’s intensive care beds at 80 percent occupancy prompted questions Wednesday about when crisis measures will be necessary.

While officials with the county health department made it clear during their regular weekly COVID-19 briefing that we’re not there yet, they also declined to set a firm break point beyond which hospitals will need to begin making decisions about who receives care in a proper room and who must be cared for in a less-than-ideal setting.

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