This ordered was given as officials say that the region might hit up 1,000 deaths per day related to COVID-19 and hospitals are overwhelmed with patients.

Emergency workers are also advised to ration oxygen which is in limited supply due to the pandemic.

Officials fear a post-holiday spike as hospital beds are running low.

New York City also issued similar orders to ambulance workers in April 2020 during the height of COVID-19 rise, ordering them not to bring patients whose survival rate is almost 0.

On Monday, the LA Public Health Department reported 9,142 new COVID-19 cases along with 77 deaths. Since the beginning, it has reported 818,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 10,700 fatalities. This region is the most affected region of the US.

Doctors have started treating patients in gift shops, parking lots, and outdoor tents.

We are not abandoning resuscitation," Dr. Gausche-Hill said. "We are doing best practice resuscitation, and that does it in the field, do it right away."

"What we're asking is that - which is slightly different than before - is that we are emphasizing the fact that transporting these patients arrested leads to very poor outcomes," she added. "We knew that already and we just don't want to impact our hospitals."

Chance of survival increases when patients with heart stroke are treated on the spot.

On Monday, 2,800 Americans, the highest daily number ever, were admitted to Covid's hospital. According to the Covid Monitoring Project, this takes the overall hospital number to 128,210. It listed over 23,000 patients in intensive care.

The number of patients in California due to coronavirus has doubled in the past month. Every six seconds, a new infection is recorded, and the condition of LA is significantly worse.

The slower-than-expected US vaccine rollout also comes as criticism mounts. On Monday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that only over 4.5 million patients had been given their first jab of the 15.4 million vaccine doses that have been provided so far.