Watch: Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus news conference in Los Angeles on March 27, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom will hold a news conference on coronavirus in Los Angeles on Friday at 1 p.m., according to the governor’s office. Click on the video below to watch (click forward to 7 minutes in). You can also find it on the @CAgovernor Twitter page.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit California, Newsom has spent the vast majority of his time at the state Capitol in Sacramento and at the state’s emergency operations center in Mather. On Friday, he traveled to Southern California to meet with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and county public health officials.

Newsom also announced he would tour the U.S. Navy medical ship Mercy, which docked at the Port of Los Angeles on Friday morning. The ship will provide more than 1,000 beds to help handle the surge in coronavirus patients that threatens to overwhelm California hospitals. That’s a fraction of the 50,000 additional beds Newsom’s office projects the state will need.

On Thursday, Newsom joined the other 49 U.S. governors and President Donald Trump on a call, during which they discussed how states should work together to buy protective equipment for medical workers.

Newsom described part of the call during a video conference with Bay Area nonprofits, and said that the state had just acquired 100 million N95 masks.

“We did that competing against other states, other nations and likely the United States itself,” he said.

Newsom said he wants more collaboration so California isn’t crowding smaller states out and increasing costs as it secures more equipment.

Over 3,000 people in California have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the California Department of Public Health. Sixty-five have died. At least 42 health care workers have tested positive.

About half of COVID-19 cases in California are people between the ages of 18 and 49, according to the department.

This story was originally published March 27, 2020 at 12:29 PM.