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At Chicago ’ s McCormick Place , a vast exhibition facility covering 2.6 million square feet , workers scrambled in April to transform an empty convention center into a massive temporary hospital with 3,000 beds – more than the biggest hospital in Illinois . But just as construction got underway , states were issuing stay-at-home orders . The US has recorded more than 8m cases and 224,000 deaths .

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