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As virus spikes, Europe runs low on ICU beds, hospital staff

by Lori Hinnant
| November 10, 2020 2:08 AM

PARIS (AP) — In Italy lines of ambulances park outside hospitals awaiting beds, and in France the government coronavirus tracking app prominently displays the intensive care capacity taken up by COVID-19 patients: 92.5% and rising. In the ICU in Barcelona, there is no end in sight for the doctors and nurses who endured this once already.

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