In letter to Trump, Gavin Newsom says 25.5 million residents will probably contract the disease over eight weeks
An estimated 25.5 million people – roughly 56% of California’s population – are likely to become infected with the coronavirus, California governor Gavin Newsom has said.
Newsom offered the alarming projection in a letter to Donald Trump on Thursday, in which the governor called on the president to deploy a navy hospital ship, the USNS Mercy, and station it in the port of Los Angeles to help the giant metro area deal with a fast-moving health crisis.
“In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new Covid-19 cases, a 21% increase. In some parts of our state, the case rate is doubling every four days,” Newsom wrote, adding that evidence of community transmission had been found in at least 23 counties.
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