In desperate need of more hospital beds
Sep 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Alice Park
PHOTOGRAPH BY NATHAN HOWARD
The Brief is reported by Eloise Barry, Madeleine Carlisle, Tara Law, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Nik Popli and Olivia B. Waxman
HERE IS A SENSE OF DÉJÀ VU IN THE U.S. MEDICAL community right now, a year and a half after COVID-19 first slammed into the health care system and knocked it down like a feather. Hospital beds are filling up, and most alarmingly, space in intensive-care units (ICUs) is at a premium. As of Sept. 14, 80% of ICU
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