Originally Posted by
SOPS
Yep. And Los Angeles has changed their criteria for transporting patients to hospital in the last 24 hours or so. Paramedics have been ordered that some of the most critically ill patients that would previously undergo resuscitation attempts and transport to hospital, instead are to be pronounced dead in the field, to free up hospital resources. They've also changed the criteria for oxygen administration, reducing the circumstances and amounts for administration due to the shortage of oxygen/administration supplies and bottles, and are building emergency treatment rooms in carparks.
Los Angeles issues brutal letter: do not treat dying patients
They've got some pretty big problems in the UK and USA, I doubt they are looking at Victoria or NSW and saying "wow, with 8 or 10 cases today those guys have really screwed up". Or even looking at them at all.