Director of Milan’s Polyclinic hospital Ezio Belleri gives a tour to the media of the newly built Ospedalefieramilano, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, March 331, 2020. Italian officials have unveiled a 200-bed intensive care field hospital at the Milan fairgrounds to help relieve the pressure on northern Italy’s overwhelmed health care system from the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially olde…
April 1, 2020
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Europe faces ICU crunch, rushes to build field hospitals
ROME (AP) — Facing intense surges in the need for hospital ICU beds, European nations are on a building and hiring spree, throwing together makeshift hospitals and shipping coronavirus patients out of overwhelmed cities via high-speed trains and military jets. The key question is whether they will be able to find enough healthy medical staff to make it all work.