The Convention Center of the Californian city becomes a field hospital to serve the thousands of COVID-19 victims.
The health crisis that is causing the coronavirus also affects the United States. The North American country, which already tops the list of the number of those affected by COVID-19, is taking extreme measures to be able to attend to citizens who are ill from the outbreak. Now we have learned that the Los Angeles Convention Center, the regular headquarters of E3, has been converted into a field hospital.
As has happened in Spain with some IFEMA pavilions, the largest consortium of fairs and congresses in Madrid, which has converted its space into a sanitary hospital in a matter of days, from California have chosen a similar idea. According to the mayor of the city, Eric Garcetti: "We are using all our resources to face the COVID-19 crisis: the Los Angeles Convention Center will now become a federal medical station", with the approval and direction from the US Department of Health and Human Services and the National Guard.
We are utilizing every resource to confront the COVID-19 crisis: @ConventionLA will now become a federal medical station, led by @HHSGov and @USNationalGuard to help relieve our nearby hospitals.
Thank you to our partners for your support during this national pandemic. pic.twitter.com/RlRWmK6dmT
– Major Eric Garcetti (@MayorOfLA) March 30, 2020
In this way, "we can help alleviate our nearby hospitals," he concludes. The complex, located at 1201 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, California, has more than 67,000 square meters and several pavilions, with a capacity to supply up to 10,000 people at the same time only in the main convention center; apart from other high-capacity pavilions derived.
The Los Angeles Convention Center, destined to be the video game world capital from June 9 to 11 for the already canceled E3 2020, now assumes the most important role in its almost fifty-year history. After being built in 1969, the CCLA was opened to the public in 1971; thereafter, it is the epicenter of all kinds of national and international meetings focused on the electronics industry, entertainment or tourism.
According to Telemundo sources, California has more than 4,200 confirmed cases of coronavirus until March 30; in the United States, the number rises to 124,686 affected by the outbreak, the nation with the most positive cases so far.
