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In this March 16, 2020, photo, doctors work in the intensive care unit of the Brescia hospital, Italy. Hospitals in northern Italy are struggling to make room for the onslaught of coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Italy struggles to make room for onslaught of virus patients
March 17, 2020 12:04 p.m.

Italy struggles to make room for onslaught of virus patients

BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Three weeks into Italy’s coronavirus crisis, Dr. Sergio Cattaneo has seen an unused ward outfitted into an intensive care unit in six days, a hospital laundry room converted into a giant stretcher-filled waiting room and a tented field hospital erected outside to test possible new virus patients.