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The Latest: California hospitals struggle to stay afloat

| January 1, 2021 2:06 PM

LOS ANGELES — California hospitals ended the year on “the brink of catastrophe,” a health official said as the pandemic pushed deaths and sickness to staggering levels and some medical centers scrambled to provide oxygen for the critically ill.

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