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California virus surge brings field hospitals, body bags

by Don Thompson
| December 16, 2020 12:06 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hospitals are filling up so fast in California that officials are rolling out mobile field facilities and scrambling to hire more doctors and nurses to prepare for an expected surge in coronavirus patients.

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