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LETTER: Local hospital beds are filling up

In his Friday column criticizing Gov. Steve Sisolak’s actions (“Hospitals take swipe at Sisolak”), the Review-Journal’s Victor Joecks cites a statement from Nov. 10 in which Nevada hospital officials said they have more capacity than last year at the same time. A lot has happened since then, and an old stat is useless.

On Nov. 30, my husband’s doctor received a call and was told that all of his surgeries scheduled for Dec. 2 were canceled due to capacity limits.

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