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Dutch hospital airlifts patients to Germany amid virus surge

by Peter DejongMike Corder
| October 26, 2020 12:03 AM

ALMERE, Netherlands (AP) — A bright yellow helicopter rose into a blue sky Friday carrying a COVID-19 patient from the Netherlands to a German intensive care unit, the first such international airlift since the pandemic first threatened to swamp Dutch hospitals in the spring.

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