California Gov. Gavin Newsom on where the state is putting makeshift hospitals: 'Everywhere we can find a location. It was ideal, we found an old arena that the Sacramento Kings used to play in. It will provide up to 400 beds.'
Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses the acquisition of the NBA's Sacramento Kings' former home arena for use as a 400-bed field hospital to help deal with the coronavirus in California's state capital on Monday.Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses the acquisition of the NBA's Sacramento Kings' former home arena for use as a 400-bed field hospital to help deal with the coronavirus in California's state capital on Monday.
You're building makeshift hospitals all over the state. You gave your speech yesterday in one of them, an old basketball arena. Can you give us an idea of what that looks like statewide, where are you putting all these beds? Even as you're preparing for a surge, you are lending hundreds of ventilators to the national stockpile. Are you confident that if your state does have this spike in cases as projected, you will have the resources you need?
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