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The hospital is full, but diverting patients isn’t an option because surrounding medical centers are overwhelmed. “I’m it,” Lewallen said shortly after begging the hospital laundry staff to start washing his scrubs because he had run out of clean ones. And there are few larger medical centers to send its sickest patients with the rest of the region also overrun by the virus. The La Crosse hospital doesn’t have a ventilator and the oxygen it provided wasn’t sufficient with the patient's “chest full of COVID." Lewallen, the radiology technician, acknowledges it might get worse but said everyone is working hard from the kitchen and laundry staff to the nurses.