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Okay, it's 9.20 at night and I'm coming back into the hospital. I want home to eat supper

so I'm coming back in to finish my work for the day. It's got lots of notes to write.

I got a patient to see. We have had a very busy day.

For the past two months, Dr. Rachel Fawds' job at her hospital, where she made this

recording, has been to take care of the sickest COVID-19 patients, trying to keep them alive.

She works at a hospital with just 208 beds in the small city of Greenwood, Mississippi, right

on the edge of the Delta. For weeks, we've been following Dr. Fawds and other staff at

the Greenwood-Lifloor Hospital, as they confront this deadly virus.

This is in the dark, coronavirus in the Delta. I'm Madeline Barron.

I've spent the past two months, along with the rest of the in the dark team, reporting

on coronavirus in the Mississippi Delta. The poorest part of Mississippi, and one of the

poorest places in the entire country. In this series, we're bringing news stories of

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