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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Mar 26, 2020, 09:19 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus has now killed more than 1,000 people in the US.

But health officials say the peak is yet to come

While the US death toll from coronavirus has now topped 1,000, exhausted hospital workers are turning to increasingly desperate measures to combat the virus.

New York Bellevue Hospital Center created a makeshift morgue using tents and refrigerated trucks. At Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, 13 patients died from coronavirus within 24 hours.

In California, the number of cases is doubling every three to four days.

And in Louisiana, where health care workers are making masks out of office supplies, hospitals are expected to run out of beds within two weeks.

If more beds don't become available, "then we don't have resources to save the lives that we need to save," former Louisiana Secretary of Health Dr. Rebekah Gee said. "That's why these stay-at-home orders are so important."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-has-now-killed-more-than-1000-people-in-the-us-but-health-officials-say-the-peak-is-yet-to-come/ar-BB11JmSD?li=BBnb7Kz
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