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This Tuesday, March 24, 2020 photo shows snowboarders, from left, Colin Tabb, Tyler Alvarez and Shaun Carroll, determined to get in a run, hike up an empty ski run past a closed chair lift at Vail, Colo., after Vail Ski Resort closed for the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Today it’s desolate. It’s a ghost town," said Tabb, a Vail resident and snowboarder. “Usually we are fighting lift lines and we are doing our thing still, but it’s a complete ghost town.” (AP Photo/Michael Ciaglo)

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Smaller communities prepare for onslaught of virus patients
March 26, 2020 7:28 a.m.

Smaller communities prepare for onslaught of virus patients

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — It started with an infected person from out of town who attended a funeral. Now the largest hospital in Georgia’s mostly rural southwest corner is rapidly running out of space amid the highest rate of coronavirus infection in the entire state.