On: LA: Ambulance crews to not transport patients with little chance of survival

[kenhwang]

From what I've read, its a hospital infrastructure problem, not a material shortage problem. The pipes that deliver oxygen to the machines can't deliver oxygen any faster because they're freezing up from the amount of oxygen being used.

[herdrick → kenhwang]

You would carry it into patients' rooms and ambulances in tanks.

[kenhwang → herdrick]

There's also a shortage of said tanks.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-s...

[herdrick → kenhwang]

Welding tanks are different, and not in shortage.