Coronavirus: Life and death in ICUs around the world Photogallery

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Scenes from intensive care units at hospitals around the world, where medical staff are treating the most severe cases of COVID-19.

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Coronavirus: Life and death in ICUs around the world

Medical workers treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient at the United Memorial Medical Center's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) intensive care unit in Houston, Texas. (Reuters)

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Medical workers prepare to intubate a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient at the United Memorial Medical Center's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) intensive care unit in Houston, Texas. (Reuters)

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Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) take care of a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi. (Reuters)

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Health workers take care of a patient infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) inside an Intensive Care Unit of the Posta Central hospital in Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

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A health worker takes care patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) inside an Intensive Care Unit of the Posta Central hospital in Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

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Ana Sandoval covers her husband, both infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with a blanket in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Dr. Alberto Antranik Eurnekian hospital, in Ezeiza, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Reuters)

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A relative touches 76-year-old Don Jaime, who is infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a final goodbye inside an Intensive Care Unit of the University of Chile's clinical hospital in Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

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Health workers care for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), inside an Intensive Care Unit of the University of Chile's clinical hospital in Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

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Nurse Fernanda Macedo treats a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Municipal Hospital Parelheiros SPDM in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Reuters)

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A medical worker helps a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to blow a spirometer for increase lung capacity, at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi. (Reuters)

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