San Francisco has a 'plan in place' if hospitals get overwhelmed and run out of beds for coronavirus patients, Mayor London Breed says
One of the biggest concerns about the pandemic is that a sharp spike in cases could overwhelm healthcare systems. That's what happened in Italy,, prioritizing young and relatively healthy patients over elderly ones, because they couldn't treat all the cases at once.San Francisco has more testing kits but still not enough
Earlier this week, San Francisco and other nearby counties ordered most residents to shelter-in-place and mandated the closure of most offices, storefronts, and other businesses to try to curtail the spread of the outbreak. San Francisco officials have been coordinating with California Pacific Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, to develop their own plans, Breed said. The city has a good idea now how many beds are available or could be made available quickly, she said.Part of the problem San Francisco and other US communities have faced in combatting the coronavirus outbreak has been a lack of kits that can test for the disease.
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