Sanford Health, the largest health-care system in the Dakotas, says it could see more than 200 additional hospital beds filled in the weeks following Thanksgiving if people gather in large groups to celebrate the holiday. Photo: Bing Guan/Reuters Some patients who need intensive care cannot receive it, as overstretched hospitals in some U.S. regions struggle with the pandemic’s largest and longest surge by prioritizing beds for only the most urgent patients. Covid-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. reached another record Wednesday of 100,266, after climbing for more than two months in the most geographically widespread surge of the pandemic. Hospital administrators say they are racing to hire more nurses, squeezing extra beds onto floors and, in some cases, moving patients across state lines to find room for the critically ill. In some overrun pockets of the country, these emergency measures are no longer enough, doctors and nurses say. An estimated […]

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