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Hot spot: California hospitals buckle as virus cases surge

by Alanna Durkin Richer & John Antczak
| December 17, 2020 1:33 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hospitals across California have all but run out of intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients, ambulances are backing up outside emergency rooms, and tents for triaging the sick are going up as the nation’s most populous state emerges as the latest epicenter of the U.S. outbreak.

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