ADThe hospital is frantically expanding for the coming surge of covid-19 patients, although officials acknowledge it will almost certainly overwhelm their efforts. And we have to treat them with the expectation that they will.”The overworked health-care workers are now the only bridge between patients and their family outside. ADADOn Wednesday, every bed in the medical ICU, whose capacity was increased from 20 to 26, held a covid-19 patient. The surgical ICU, now at 25 beds, held 21 covid-19 patients. But there is a backlog of patients waiting for critical care beds.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2020 22:13 UTC