With a potential surge of coronavirus patients, there may not be enough beds, equipment and staff to handle an epidemic
and President Trump, in his most recent budget, called for an $18 million cut to the hospital preparedness program.
deaths, are conserving respirators, by scaling back on drills in which health care workers practice wearing them. In California, the public health department received a federal signoff to dip into its emergency stockpile of 21 million face masks for medical providers.
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