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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,748 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:39 AM Mar 2020

Interesting: A whole hospital is being designated for virus patients:

https://kstp.com/news/bethesda-hospital-in-st-paul-to-be-turned-into-covid-19-care-facility/5677032/?fbclid=IwAR38b2VkcgoKhtD9Zict8DGTuWFjx9HZpUPogLYDS9mSu2FE_MQ1FTDY8UE Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul will be made into a COVID-19 specialty care facility. The hospital will increase capacity from 50 to 90 beds, including 35 intensive care beds and 55 medical-surgical beds.

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Interesting: A whole hospital is being designated for virus patients: (Original Post) The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 OP

The new hospital in Verduno, Italy is finally opening. FightingIrish Mar 2020 #1

About time! This should be widely copied in every state. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2020 #2

There was someone on MSNBC the other day who was talking about HotTeaBag Mar 2020 #3

FightingIrish

(2,716 posts)

1. The new hospital in Verduno, Italy is finally opening.

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:45 AM

Mar 2020

It’s taken twenty years and was to have opened in June. Sunday it will open as a “COVID hospital”

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,641 posts)

2. About time! This should be widely copied in every state. n/t

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:53 AM

Mar 2020

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)

3. There was someone on MSNBC the other day who was talking about

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:58 AM

Mar 2020

having America create a whole separate health care system just for COVID-19 to keep it separate from our regular system which I thought was an interesting idea.

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