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California hospitals discuss rationing care as virus surges

by Christopher Weber
| December 21, 2020 10:33 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s overwhelmed hospitals are setting up makeshift extra beds for coronavirus patients, and a handful of facilities in hard-hit Los Angeles County are drawing up emergency plans in case they have to limit how many people receive life-saving care.

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