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New York’s healthcare workers are on the frontline of the war against coronavirus in the US
Elmhurst hospital in Queens has become the epicentre of this battle
"Only those patients who are gasping for breath" are given beds, reports @BBCJonSopel
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@BBCJonSopel "Playing God" is not what one young doctor thought she’d be doing at this stage in her career
She says the stress is intense
Nearly everyone who arrives at the ER needs to be put on a ventilator
Across the country, hospitals are overloaded bbc.in/2UDPaTS

@BBCJonSopel The hospital, which has a capacity of 282 beds, is now thought to be housing over 500 patients
In the initial stages of the outbreak, it was the “worried well” who would be turning up in this poor neighbourhood
Now everyone is sick bbc.in/2xJqe4o

@BBCJonSopel The hospital has been given double the number of ventilators it originally had - but they are already being fully utilised
Doctors say they need more and the peak of the curve is still weeks away
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@BBCJonSopel This young doctor says she is not frightened for herself, but a dozen of her co-workers have fallen ill
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@BBCJonSopel The United States now has more confirmed cases than any other single country
This series of maps and charts tracks the spread of the virus since it emerged in China last December bbc.in/3aM4N1i

@BBCJonSopel Follow the latest coronavirus developments across US & Canada:
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