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Postcard From an Overrun ICU: ‘The Problem Is We Are Running Out of Hallways’

by NICK EHLI
| September 24, 2021 7:00 AM

BILLINGS, Mont. — Nurses fill the hospital room to turn a patient from his stomach to his back. The ventilator forcing air into him is most effective when he’s on his stomach, so he is in that position most hours of the day, sedated and paralyzed by drugs...

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