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California 'surge' hospitals are costly, but how much?

by Associated Press
| July 8, 2020 11:03 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — With coronavirus cases rising fast, California is planning to keep open several makeshift hospitals that have seen few patients but cost a bundle — in one case more than $4 million to prepare and staff a facility that only treated two people over nearly two months.

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