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Chile's hospital ICUs near full capacity as pandemic rages

by Associated Press
| May 26, 2020 1:03 PM

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Intensive care units in Chile's hospitals are nearly at capacity amid a flood of coronavirus patients, authorities said Tuesday, and doctors are having to make wrenching choices over which patients should get available beds.

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