COVID-19 victim were crashing, and Kearny County Hospital in rural Lakin, Kansas, just wasn’t equipped to handle the case. Miller, Kearny’s chief medical officer - who doubles as the county health officer - called around to larger hospitals in search of an ICU bed.
With coronavirus cases soaring throughout Kansas, he said, he couldn't find a single one.By the time a bed opened elsewhere the following day, the young man was near death.
For a full 45 minutes, Miller and his staff performed chest compressions in a desperate attempt to save him.Somehow, Miller said, the patient regained a pulse, and was dispatched in an ambulance to the larger facility about 25 miles away.