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Maintenance worker Viktor Kvitovskiy holds a piece of tissue paper in his left hand that he runs along the edge of the ICU's 12 rooms, checking to make sure the negative pressure rooms are working properly and that there is no airflow from the rooms inside of the ICU office.

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Inside an intensive care unit: Largest local hospital braces as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise
December 14, 2020 1 a.m.

Inside an intensive care unit: Largest local hospital braces as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise

MOSES LAKE — Nine months into a global pandemic, Samaritan Hospital is facing possibly the largest surge of coronavirus hospitalizations and juggling patients with other crowded hospitals.