This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCalifornia health officials and hospital administrators are pleading for residents to stay home during the holidays as a record-shattering surge of covid-19 patients pushes the medical system to the brink, with the state opening field hospitals and issuing pleas for more health-care workers to treat the ill.With one model suggesting the state’s hospitals may be flooded with tens of thousands more patients by mid-January, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said officials are updating the state’s...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCalifornia health officials and hospital administrators are pleading for residents to stay home during the holidays as a record-shattering surge of covid-19 patients pushes the medical system to the brink, with the state opening field hospitals and issuing pleas for more health-care workers to treat the ill.With one model suggesting the state’s hospitals may be flooded with tens of thousands more patients by mid-January, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said officials are updating the state’s...WW…