But look around the mobile unit, even the University of California San Francisco Health hospital itself, says the emergency care physician. Since the pandemic began, many California hospitals have been preparing for a massive influx of COVID-19 patients — the dreaded surge. Dr. Jahan Fahimi, emergency care physician at University of California San Francisco Health, says the state's early action to try to slow the spread of COVID-19 seems to have made a difference. The states like California and Washington that implemented physical distancing early had fewer deaths than what was projected, Mokdad says. Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, an epidemiology professor at UCLA, says California's success controlling its COVID-19 outbreak comes with a few asterisks.

Source: CBC News April 09, 2020 09:30 UTC