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93-Percent Of OR's Hospital Beds Are Full

(Portland, OR)  --  At least 93-percent of Oregon's hospital beds are full and staffing is critically short as the Delta variant causes a surge of patients.  Only 41 ICU beds remain available.  Oregon Health Authority Director Patrick Allen says doctors and nurses in some hospitals will soon have to make triage decisions of whom they can save and whom they cannot.  Allen says unvaccinated people are driving the surge. 

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