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'All the beds are taken up by Covid victims': Hospitals in the South are running out of space or staff [cnn.com]:

'All the beds are taken up by Covid victims': Hospitals in the South are running out of space or staff

Susan Walker has been calling out-of-state hospitals trying to get help for her husband, who did not get vaccinated against Covid-19 and is now in a medically induced coma.

"He is on a ventilator and in dire need of an ECMO [gwhospital.com] treatment, which is not available at the hospital that he is in," the Florida mother said Sunday.

"All the beds are taken up by Covid victims also getting ECMO."

An ECMO treatment uses external machinery that can function as the heart and lungs [gwhospital.com]. It's been used with some severely ill Covid-19 patients, including young adults [cnn.com].

CNN's Lauren Mascarenhas, Jessica Firger and Matthew Hilk contributed to this report.

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