As the state reacts to last night's lockdown order from Gov. Newsom, California's hospitals are on the frontline of the battle against the deadly coronavirus. The hurdles are high: supplies of essentials like masks and ventilators are low; a much-needed shipment of testing kits arrived missing parts; doctors, nurses and other hospital staff risk infection as they provide treatment. Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association joins us to talk about the challenges as hospitals react to this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic... "an order of potential magnitude that we just haven't seen before."
As the state reacts to last night's lockdown order from Gov. Newsom, California's hospitals are on the frontline of the battle against the deadly coronavirus. The hurdles are high: supplies of essentials like masks and ventilators are low; a much-needed shipment of testing kits arrived missing parts; doctors, nurses and other hospital staff risk infection as they provide treatment. Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association joins us to talk about the challenges as hospitals react to this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic... "an order of potential magnitude that we just haven't seen before."