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There is not enough room for all the sick and injured people in Minnesota to receive the emergency care they need.

Hundreds are waiting, some on the floor, in the hopes that a bed or operating table might open up. On Tuesday morning, 246 patients statewide had been waiting for more than four hours for a bed.

It's a backlog created by yet another surge of COVID-19 cases. Doctors and nurses say there's no end in sight, and people are likely dying in the shadows of this wave of infections........

It doesn't have to be like this anymore, Hick said. Last week, his hospital system, along with eight others across the state, took out a full page newspaper ad, urging people in Minnesota to get vaccinated. Almost all of his hospitalized COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated. Like other providers across the country, he has seen the impact vaccines can have on disease severity, and he knows that severe sickness and hospitalization from COVID-19 is by and large preventable today.

"We're very worried about the potential that we're gonna have lives that'll be lost," Hick said.........

Dr. Matthew Prekker, a critical care and lung specialist who works alongside Hick in Minnesota, puts it more bluntly. He says there's no doubt in his mind that people have died because his hospital simply doesn't have enough space for them.

"We have historically been the place where people that have nowhere else to go can come," Prekker said, explaining how critically injured patients from all over the state requiring specialized care would normally "be on a helicopter to our facility within an hour."

"Now, we say 'no' day after day," Prekker said. "And that's led to preventable deaths.".........

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