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one of 11 states reporting a spike in covid deaths over the past two weeks alone, and on monday the state set a new record for the number of hospitalizations. joining me now is debby hewitt, a nurse and director of critical care services at mercy hospital fortt smith in northwestern arkansas. thank you so much for your time. i want to first ask you about what you are seeing in the icu these days. how is it different from what you have seen during previous spikes? i think prior to may our patients would progress a little bit slower than they are right now. right now people are coming in and within a week are passing away. today alone we re throwing care on four patients. many have only been in the icu for three days an these hugely different than what we saw back in the fall and winter where people would linger for 30, 60, 90 days. our population is much younger this time than what we ve seen

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