OMAHA - What started with one temporary surge tent outside the Nebraska Medical Center’s emergency room has mushroomed in a week’s time into a small tent city.

Nebraska Medicine’s emergency preparedness team on Tuesday finished setting up a second patient tent that can provide additional surge capacity, if needed, for patients with symptoms of COVID-19. A third structure will serve as a workspace for staff.

The two patient tents will provide additional space where health care workers can see people with respiratory symptoms consistent with the illness caused by the novel coronavirus separately from those visiting the emergency room for other reasons.

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