SACRAMENTO- Gavin Newsom has sent a letter to President Donald Trump requesting the immediate deployment of the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through September 1, 2020, to “help decompress the state’s health care delivery system in Los Angeles in response to COVID-19”. In the letter published here, Newsom says he projects 56% of California or 25.5 million people to be infected with COVID-19 and the number of new cases are almost doubling daily. He expects Los Angeles will be the most impacted because of its population density.
