The governor of California in 2011 , Jerry Brown , got rid of the state 's stockpile of mobile hospitals , ventilators , respirators , and patient beds in budget cuts .
California in 2006 had stockpiled three 200-bed mobile hospitals with 50 million N95 respirators , 2,400 ventilators , and 21,000 additional patient beds , but the governor at the time , Jerry Brown , disposed of them in 2011 as a budget cutting measure.
2020 coronavirus pandemic in California