Active-duty U.S. Air Force healthcare providers are working in California hospitals to assist with coronavirus cases, according to an article on the Los Angeles Times website.
A total of 160 military healthcare professionals are working in five hospitals.
Hospital staffing — not bed capacity — is the biggest issue when trying to ramp up Covid care, health official shave said.
Additional teams are still being formed and will be deployed to COVID-19 hot spots throughout the state Brian Ferguson, spokesman for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said in the article.