Prognosis
How America MacGyvered Its Way Out of Covid Chaos
‘We’ve all learned agility during this pandemic,’ a nurse says
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America’s beleaguered health system has remained afloat throughout the coronavirus attack, if only through raw ingenuity.
As Covid-19 started spreading across the U.S., health officials made grim projections of hundreds of thousands of deaths if residents didn’t shelter in place. Hospital executives predicted frightening forecasts: mass shortages of intensive-care beds, dwindling personal protective equipment and a dearth of ventilators.