National Guard activated to help hospitals in rural California

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by: Los Angeles Times
Posted: Oct 4, 2021 / 07:01 AM PDT / Updated: Oct 4, 2021 / 07:01 AM PDT

The California National Guard has dispatched medical teams to three beleaguered hospitals in Northern California and the Central Valley, where exhausted healthcare workers are weathering another surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Teams of 16 people have been deployed to assist healthcare staffs at Memorial Hospital and Mercy Hospital Southwest in Bakersfield and Mercy Medical Center Redding, said Lt. Col. Jonathan Shiroma, a California National Guard spokesman.

Another Bakersfield hospital, Adventist Health, has requested help from the National Guard, and a 14-person team is expected to arrive Saturday, said Daniel Wolcott, president of Adventist Health Kern County ...

https://ktla.com/news/california/national-guard-activated-to-help-hospitals-in-rural-california-amid-covid-surge/

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1. Bakersfield is in Kevin McCarthy's Congressional District, next door to Devin's Cow's District and

Redding is practically the capital of our RW pretend State of Jefferson in the North. Today a big and battered pick-up truck was in front of me at a light, carrying a big Jefferson State flag and message, Proud to be a member of the Free State of Jefferson.

Low vaccination rates in those red regions of our state.