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Belgium's 'coronavirus tsunami' threatens health care system

'Coronavirus tsunami' in Belgium threatens health care system

10/30/2020

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Belgium's 'coronavirus tsunami' threatens health care system

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'Coronavirus tsunami' in Belgium threatens health care system

While the coronavirus surges again in the U.S., it is also raging in Europe -- and nowhere worse than Belgium, which is now the continent’s worst hot spot. The southern, French-speaking Wallonia region is being hit particularly hard. Special correspondent Lucy Hough reports from Liege, where intensive care beds are filling up and hospital admissions have been doubling every eight days.

10/30/2020

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