France turns to speedy trains to catch up in virus response
(WorldNews France)

Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. PARIS - The high-speed train whooshing past historic World War I battle zones and through the chateau-speckled Loire Valley carried a delicate cargo: 20 critically ill COVID-19 patients and the machines helping keep them alive. The TGV-turned-mobile-intensive-care-unit is just one piece of France´s nationwide mobilization of trains, helicopters, jets and even a warship, deployed to relieve congested hospitals and to shuffle hundreds of patients and hundreds more medical...