The Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices located at 200 Muir Road in Martinez, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. (Samantha Laurey/Bay City News)

Facing an unprecedented health crisis across the country, Contra Costa County health providers are struggling to ramp up their preparations for an expected flood of COVID-19 coronavirus patients.

In a fresh study released Tuesday through ProPublica, the Harvard Global Health Institute for the first time gives a sense of which regions will be particularly stressed and should be preparing most aggressively right now.

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