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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,669 posts)
Sun May 10, 2020, 11:59 AM May 2020

A (sort of) success story for a hospital that treats only COVID-19 patients:

As one of the nation’s first and only hospitals to focus solely on COVID-19, Bethesda has seen its share of death. Twenty of the first 130 COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota hospitals were at Bethesda. But the St. Paul hospital also has seen joy and recovery, as social distancing in Minnesota has delayed the peak of the pandemic and given doctors more knowledge with which to confront an infectious disease that didn’t surface until late last year.
The rest: https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-hospitals-readying-for-the-beast-of-covid-19/570341811/
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