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	Podcast:		KQED’s The California Report
	Episode:		Hospitals Brace for Wave of COVID-19 Patients
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:10:55
	Publish Date:		2020-03-23 09:09:25
	Description:		PG&E Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for Camp Fire PG&E said Monday that it is pleading guilty to 85 criminal counts in connection with the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, a blaze that killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the town of Paradise. Reporter: Lily Jamali, The California Report co-Host Hospitals Brace for Wave of COVID-19 Patients California hospitals are preparing for a surge of coronavirus patients. Governor Newsom has directed more than 42 million dollars in emergency funding to California’s health care system. part of that money will be used to lease a hospital in Daly City in Northern California and reopen a recently closed hospital here in L.A. Together, that should add a thousand more hospital beds...but that likely still won’t be nearly enough. Guest: Jorge Reyno, Vice President, Martin Luther King Hospital International Aid Groups Help Hospitals At L.A.’s Martin Luther King Hospital, the humanitarian aid group International Medical Corps, which usually operates in war and disaster zones abroad, assembled a huge tent that will operate as a field triage facility next to the hospital’s emergency room. Guest: Margaret Traub, International Medical Corps
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