As Coronavirus Slams Houston Hospitals, It’s Like New York ‘All Over Again’
HOUSTON — Over the past week, Dr. Aric Bakshy, an emergency physician at Houston Methodist, had to decide which coronavirus patients he should admit to...
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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down
After a minor late-spring lull, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States is once again on the rise. States like Arizona, Florida...
Here’s What Recovery From Covid-19 May Look Like for Many Survivors
Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill coronavirus patients who survive and leave the hospital are facing a new and difficult challenge: recovery. Many are struggling...
Why Surviving Covid Might Come Down to Which NYC Hospital Admits You
In Queens, the borough with the most coronavirus cases and the fewest hospital beds per capita, hundreds of patients languished in understaffed wards, often unwatched...
‘Feeling Like Death’: Inside a Houston Hospital Bracing for a Virus Peak
HOUSTON — Melissa Estrada had tried to be so careful about the coronavirus. For months she kept her three children at home, and she always...
Coronavirus Has Arizona Health Care Workers at the Breaking Point
TUCSON, Ariz. — As I write this, I have just finished my ninth consecutive overnight shift as an emergency medicine physician here. At the end...
Arizona ‘Overwhelmed’ With Demand for Tests as U.S. System Shows Strain
ImageLining up for tests at a site hosted by a migrant justice organization in Phoenix on Saturday.Credit…Matt York/Associated Press People seeking drive-up coronavirus tests in...
In Texas, 6 Critically Ill Covid-19 Patients Would Overwhelm This Hospital
Video by Alexander Stockton Video transcript Back transcript In Texas, 6 Critically Ill Covid-19 Patients Would Overwhelm This Hospital With cases in Texas on the...
‘Though the Virus Hadn’t Yet Reached Us, It Was Already Our Enemy’
One of the difficulties in a small rural hospital is we don’t have a lot of resources. We have two ventilators and four anesthesia machines....
In Poor Countries, Many Covid-19 Patients Are Desperate for Oxygen
As the coronavirus pandemic hits more impoverished countries with fragile health care systems, global health authorities are scrambling for supplies of a simple treatment that...