Prognosis
Covid’s Rampage Means No Medical Cavalry Coming to the Rescue
- Nationwide spread stretches capacity of U.S. medical personnel
- ‘It’s bad everywhere,’ says a supplier to 4,000 hospitals
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Jeff Jensen, a critical-care doctor in Rochester, Minnesota, volunteered last spring to bolster New York City’s medical workers during its Covid-19 crisis. The 51-year-old spent two weeks in an ad hoc intensive-care unit at a Brooklyn public hospital.