COVID-19 models plot dire scenarios for California hospitals Gov. Gavin Newsom's dire view of California’s out-of-control surge of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths is based partly on projection models that he says are becoming alarmingly more accurateLOS ANGELES -- When Gov. Hospitals were on the brink of being overrun with nearly 15,000 patients with COVID-19 when Newsom made the announcement Tuesday. “One thing that's worrisome is that for quite a while in California we've had exponential hospitalizations and cases,” Kilpatrick said. Bradley Pollock, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis, said recent models have been more accurate.

Source: ABC News December 18, 2020 05:03 UTC