UK Virus Closing Hospital Wards


	UK Virus Closing Hospital Wards

ColoradoRight

1-4-2008 11:24 AM

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england, nhs, healh, healthcare, virus, capacity

ColoradoRight says:

Twenty percent of hospitals closing wards - can you imagine that percentage in the US?

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