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'Such is life': In virus wards, death is a foe but a fact

by John Leicester
| December 14, 2020 12:03 AM

PARIS (AP) — During their daily morning round of the intensive care unit, hospital staffers and medical students pause outside room No. 10, abruptly emptied of the patient who lost his nearly month-long battle against COVID-19 the previous evening.

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