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“It will become the largest hospital in Los Angeles when it docks,” Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles said on Sunday night.

In San Francisco, hospitals have checked out patients without critical needs and are looking for spare capacity wherever they can find it. One hospital, St. Francis Memorial, brought back into service four dozen vacant beds in a furloughed surgery unit. A bankrupt hospital in Daly City, south of San Francisco, was rescued from imminent closure with an infusion of state funds.

The city has also been laying out plans to turn convention centers into temporary shelters, and lease hotel rooms for health care workers and vulnerable people who cannot self-quarantine. Measures to combat the virus were being taken at the state, county and local levels, sometimes resulting in a confusing patchwork of directives, and the governor is also leaning heavily on the private sector.

Mr. Newsom has conferred with Elon Musk, the head of the electric carmaker Tesla, and Tim Cook, the head of Apple. The two executives, along with the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have announced separately that their companies would give a total of 2 million protective masks to the state. Mr. Musk vowed to produce 1,000 ventilators, according to Mr. Newsom.

Within a few minutes at a news conference over the weekend, the governor spoke of the ambivalence of the moment — a feeling of an abundance of resources and talent and yet the scarcities of crucial supplies as the virus spreads.

“I’ve had just in the last 48 hours the opportunity to speak to more scientists, more researchers, more engineers, more Nobel laureates, more C.E.O.s of companies large and small than I have quite literally in years,” Mr. Newsom said.