California Gov. Gavin Newsom warned President Trump that the state is projecting 56% of its population will contract the coronavirus in the next eight weeks.

Newsom made the prediction in a Thursday letter to the president asking him for the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship to be stationed outside Los Angeles to help unburden the health situation there.

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