Collected Item: “Hospital Beds in the City”
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Hospital Beds in the City
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photo of a Meme
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While coronavirus is a horror unique to itself, there are also ripple effects caused by the stress that it is putting on the healthcare system. This manifests itself in hospitals being unable to cope with regular, daily issues; for Baltimore, this is gunshot victims that are either occupying beds that could be used by coronavirus victims, or vice versa.
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#Baltimore, #gunviolence, #healthcare, #cities
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/03/18/we-need-those-beds-baltimore-mayor-urges-people-to-put-down-guns-after-violence-continues-during-covid-19-pandemic/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
meme was taken from iFunny, article title is from local Baltimore CBS station
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2020-05-27