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He survived the water, but not the flood
Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. Now, his family hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.
ICUs Are Changing To Meet The Needs Of The Coronavirus Patients
Medical staffs are reeling from the changes COVID-19 has brought to intensive care units — from redesigning the spaces to changing what it means to care for patients who are facing death alone.
New York Lung Doctors Rush To Spread Their Expertise To Other Physicians
Pulmonologists at some New York City hospitals are changing the ways they work to keep up with critically ill COVID-19 patients. They are changing who does what — and training lots of people.
Improvisation And Retraining May Be Key To Saving Patients In New York’s ICUs
Pulmonologists in New York hospitals are now supervising doctors from other specialties as they try to keep ICUs staffed, and are deploying equipment in new ways. But COVID-19 is a demoralizing foe.
New York’s Temporary Overflow Hospitals Remain Underused Despite COVID-19 Crisis
Two temporary hospital facilities are open in New York City inside a major convention center and aboard a Navy hospital ship. But so far, both have far fewer patients than they can handle.
‘It’s Like Something’s Right In Your Grasp’: Hospitals Struggle To Test For Virus
Despite a statewide effort to procure and distribute coronavirus testing supplies to hospitals in New York, some facilities still don’t have what they need to test patients quickly on-site.
