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Covid causes hospitals to hit their limits

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

December 10, 2021

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Covid-19 is hitting another year-end peak in Wisconsin, and communicable disease epidemiologist Dr. Ryan Westergaard explains how the pandemic has again come to fill up hospitals around the state.

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