And now it has more than doubled yet again, to roughly 700 new hospital patients daily, just a few days before Christmas. Projections of L.A. County hospital bed demand as of Wednesday. Available ICU bed capacity for COVID-19 patients effectively fell to zero last week. AdvertisementMore than 1,200 COVID-19 patients in L.A. County were in the ICU on Sunday, more than triple the number from late November. But “it’s not ideal to be in a physical location that was built for providing that level of care,” Lewis said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 22, 2020 19:09 UTC