A sign directs patients with respiratory symptoms to a tent at the Central Maine Medical Center, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Lewiston, Maine. The hospital is using the tent to make preliminary test for patients with coronavirus symptoms. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
March 13, 2020
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March 13, 2020 4:02 p.m.
US hospitals brace for 'tremendous strain' from new virus
U.S. hospitals are setting up circus-like triage tents, calling doctors out of retirement, guarding their supplies of face masks and making plans to cancel elective surgery as they brace for an expected onslaught of coronavirus patients.