‘Surprised and disappointed.’ Doctors in Covid-19 hotspots last year are dealing with new record hospitalizations

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By Travis Caldwell, CNN

Updated 4:26 AM ET, Mon September 6, 2021

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    (CNN)With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials are finding themselves returning to acrisis experiencedlast year when hospitals struggled to handle an influx of patients.In the Southeast, Georgia is now seeing its highest number of hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic, matching peaks experienced in January, according to US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) data.Dr. James Black, director of emergency services at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, told CNN’s Amara Walker Saturday that his hospital nearly doubled its ICU capacity yet is still faced with an overflow of patients.

      “The emergency department is full and the hospital is…

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