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California learns costly pandemic lesson about hospitals

FILE — In this April 18, 2020, file photo, partitions are installed between beds as Sleep Train Arena is turned into a 400-bed emergency field hospital to help deal with the coronavirus, in Sacramento, Calif. California spent nearly $200 million to set up, operate and staff alternate care sites that ultimately provided little help when the state’s worst coronavirus surge spiraled out of control last winter, forcing exhausted hospital workers to treat patients in tents and cafeterias. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) FILE — In this April 18, 2020 file photo sheeting is placed on partitions installed between beds as work is performed to turn the Sleep Train Arena into a 400 bed emergency field hospital to help deal with the coronavirus , in Sacramento, Calif. California spent nearly $200 million to set up, operate and staff alternate care sites that ultimately provided little help when the state’s worst coronavirus surge spiraled out of control last winter, forcing exhausted hospital workers to treat patients in tents and cafeterias. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
California learns costly pandemic lesson about hospitals