Hospitals in Orange County Prepare for COVID Surge After Dire Warning

Hospitals in Orange County Prepare for COVID Surge After Dire Warning
A hospital worker walks equipment into an emergency triage tent set up outside of Kaiser Permanente's Orange County Medical Center in Irvine, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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Hospital staff and intensive care unit (ICU) operations in Orange County are preparing to handle the ongoing “Thanksgiving surge” in positive COVID-19 cases that officials say is currently taking place throughout Southern California.

Hospital emergency rooms throughout the county have already set up tents outside their walls to act as triage centers next to their entrances. However, only one patient was seen being taken into any of the tents on Dec. 11, as part of a sample survey by The Epoch Times which included three area hospitals.