Hospitals and healthcare staff address overcrowding in emergency departments amid COVID-19 surge

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Hospitals, nurses and doctors discuss measures taken to prevent overcrowding in emergency departments during the coronavirus surge.

Hospitals, nurses and doctors at emergency departments tell CNA what should, and is, being done to prevent overcrowding amid the coronavirus surge.

 

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