Inside the rush to secure Rio de Janeiro's few COVID-19 beds

Specialists stood over intubated patients in the intensive care unit, reviewing charts and jotting down notes. Two empty beds were in sight Saturday morning, but doctors at the Sao Jose hospital in a working class city just north of Rio de Janeiro said they would be occupied by afternoon. “People are coming from all over,” José Carlos de Oliveira, health secretary for the city of Duque de Caxias, told The Associated Press in the hospital's parking lot.

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