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Governor Newsom, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

California has quickly become one of the biggest stories in and around the coronavirus

outbreak, specifically because of how the numbers have grown, but also because of what the

state has been doing to combat coronavirus.

Talk us through the initiative that just kicked off today.

What is happening with regards to expanding healthcare and beds for people who need it?

So we have to increase our healthcare capacity within our hospital system by two thirds.

In order to do that, you need three things.

You need the physical spaces.

You need all the protective gear, the N95 masks, the ventilators.

But you need people at the end of the day.

And the most precious resource are people.

And as a consequence, there's no way we can meet the moment unless people that are recently

retired or people that are in the middle of credentialing and licensing start to enter

into the workforce.

So we just did a big push today to create a health core and create incentives and create

the kind of flexibility.

So we can get thousands and thousands of phlobatomists and pharmacists and paramedics and EMTs,

nurses and doctors into the workforce over the next few weeks.

So that's what you're doing with regards to fights and coronavirus on the ground.

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