Flu Spread Opens Hospital Wings in U.S. as Cases Rise
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Hospitals in the U.S. are adding more beds and boosting staff to meet increasing admissions of patients stricken by the influenza outbreak that prompted Boston to declare a health emergency in the city.
Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, is adding 40 new beds after a 20 percent jump in emergency admissions, while Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has opened a wing that wasn’t being used so it could handle additional patients. At the University of Chicago Medical Center, patients with antibiotic-resistant infections, who are normally isolated, are being paired together to make more room for flu cases.