In 2020, hospitals in California hired rental ventilators and rationed N95 masks, raising complaints from nurses. California in 2006 had stockpiled three 200-bed mobile hospitals with 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 ventilators, and 21,000 additional patient beds, but the governor at the time, Jerry Brown, disposed of them in 2011 as a budget cutting measure.[261]