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    Ugly battles erupt as residents fight housing coronavirus patients in their cities

    by Luke Money, Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2020 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The coronavirus has yet to become a major health threat in Orange County, Calif. But a proposal to eventually place some patients at a state-owned facility in Costa Mesa has sparked a political battle in which wary residents are speaking in conspiratorial, even apocalyptic terms.

    "Expose the hidden agenda to bring coronavirus into our city," one wrote on a poster board outside a federal courthouse in Santa Ana on Monday.

    "Life will end as we know it," added another.

    At the focus of their fury is a proposal to use the Fairview Developmental Center as a coronavirus quarantine site, a notion that drew swift and fierce condemnation from city, county, state and federal officials representing the area.

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