SACRAMENTO, CA (KMJ) -Governor Gavin Newsom’s office releases a letter Thursday, asking the President for help from the Navy.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s office projects that more than half of Californians will be infected by coronavirus over the next 8 weeks.
That’s more than 25 million people potentially sick and needing services.
Newsome shared that figure in a letter the governor sent to President Trump on Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
Newsom’s letter asks the federal government to send the Navy Mercy Hospital Ship to help the deal with a surge of COVID-19 patients.
Newsom’s letter says the ship can dock in Los Angeles to ease the strain on California’s hospitals overloaded with patients.
