Most enlistees not eligible to join California Health Corps

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Two-thirds of the 93,000 people who volunteered for Gov. Gavin Newsom's California Health Corps lacked valid medical licenses, the most basic requirement. And state officials say only one of every three remaining took the next step of filling out an application.

Newsom's plan when he announced the program was to use corps members for the expected crush of coronavirus patients. That surge hasn't happened and data provided to The Associated Press shows only about 10,500 corps volunteers are left.

The program now has no clearly defined role, but the first volunteers were still deployed with no patients to care for.