ATLANTA — Metro Atlanta hospital systems are uniting to deliver a public message about the increasingly grim picture on the COVID front lines.
Since the pandemic began, the metro health systems have been working together at the CEO and chief medical officer levels in communicating about virus-related problems. Many of their hospitals reported severe ER crowding Wednesday, as well as diversion of ambulances due to inability of some facilities to take in more patients. Other large hospitals across the state reported similar crunches.
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