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One of California’s first active COVID-19 coronavirus field respite centers, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, took in its first two patients Sunday, Santa Clara County officials said. Marianne Favro reports.

One of California’s first active COVID-19 coronavirus field respite centers, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, took in its first two patients Sunday, Santa Clara County officials said. Marianne Favro reports.

One of California’s first active COVID-19 coronavirus field respite centers, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, took in its first two patients Sunday, Santa Clara County officials said.

Federal, state and local emergency coordinators toured the Santa Clara Convention Center to figure out how to start converting it into one of eight statewide medical centers that will deal with non-coronavirus patients.

As the number of coronavirus cases grows, everyone is trying to prevent hospitals from getting overrun by patients and as part of that plan, the federal government is preparing to create at least eight medical centers around the state. The Santa Clara Convention Center is one of them. Robert Handa reports.