California orders surgery delays as virus swamps hospitals

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hospitals in California are so swamped by the coronavirus that the state has ordered those with room to accept patients from others that are out of intensive care beds. The public health order issued Tuesday could result in patients being shipped to Northern California from Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley, where 14 counties also were ordered to delay nonessential “and non-life threatening” surgeries. For much of the year, California managed to