‘If you get sick, we may not have a bed’: Oregon hospitals reel from Covid surge

‘It’s never been as bad as it is now,’ one nurse in the intensive care unit told reporters

An intense surge in Covid cases is pushing Oregon’s healthcare system to the brink as mostly unvaccinated patients fill up hospitals and nearly all available ICU beds in the state are occupied.

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