Minnesota hospital ICUs became dangerously full in November
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“The patients in the ICU were so sick and they just didn’t have any beds available,” said Dr. John Hick, a Hennepin Healthcare physician who helped coordinate Minnesota’s response to the pandemic. “No question, every hospital was having to make decisions about who went to intensive care.”