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California orders surgery delays as virus swamps hospitals

by Brian Melley
| January 5, 2021 10:03 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hospitals in California are so swamped by the coronavirus pandemic that the state has ordered those with room to accept patients from others that are out of intensive care beds.

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