San Bernardino County To Bring Out Paramedics, Fire Trucks To Non-Life Threatening 911 Calls To Make Room More Ambulances

From CBS Los Angeles:

By CBSLA Staff

December 2, 2020 at 10:32 pm

SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — As emergency rooms across San Bernardino County fill up with coronavirus patients, ambulances are being forced to line up in front of ERs and wait sometimes hours with stable patients inside.

To help address concerns, the county plans to send fewer ambulances out to calls, reserving them only for life-threatening emergencies, such as trouble breathing due to coronavirus and other ailments.

“We want to do our best to decompress those facilities, allow them to care for the sick patients and to catch up so that the system itself can keep up with the influx of COVID and flu season,” said Eric Sherwin of San Bernardino County Fire

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