How one US hospital is (not) coping

Grim picture: An MRI technologist reviews a chest X-ray from a Covid-19 patient in the ICU at St Anthony Hospital in Chicago. — TNS

IN one day, we lost three patients in the intensive care unit due to complications related to severe Covid-19 pneumonia.

The patients who died were 45,53 and 73 years old. All three had been on life support for more than four weeks and had developed multiple complications, including other infections with resistant bacteria, bleeding, acute kidney failure and shock. All three patients were on maximum ventilator support, and there were no more ways to give them more oxygen.