Minot, ND, is just pushed to the limit by COVID:
Two doctors:
“I have to watch someone suffocate to death every day, sometimes multiple times a day."
“When I say that every death from this is a preventable death, I mean it. Every single one.”
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Two doctors:
“I have to watch someone suffocate to death every day, sometimes multiple times a day."
“When I say that every death from this is a preventable death, I mean it. Every single one.”
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A funeral-home director says he arrives at work at 6 am "and I’m leaving at 8:30 or 9 o’clock at night and probably not taking supper.”
He usually does 30 funerals a month. He has 30 funerals "on its immediate docket" now.
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He usually does 30 funerals a month. He has 30 funerals "on its immediate docket" now.
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In one day, an assisted-iving facility "went from 0 positive tests to 58. In a facility with 120 residents, 21 people died."
"On Thursday, we went in and told a few people that they had it. They looked at us like we were crazy. By the next Friday, they were gone.” 3/4
"On Thursday, we went in and told a few people that they had it. They looked at us like we were crazy. By the next Friday, they were gone.” 3/4
Outstanding local reporting via @adampwillis, in ND with @Report4America https://www.inforum.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6770225-How-Minot-became-the-COVID-19-capital-of-North-Dakota">https://www.inforum.com/newsmd/co... 4/4
An excellent thread here of the many communities teetering under unprecedented burdens from Covid https://twitter.com/scottmaustin/status/1329945492160036865">https://twitter.com/scottmaus...