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Why Covid-19 Didn’t Create the Nursing Crisis

We’re entering our third year of Covid, and America’s nurses — who we celebrated as heroes during the early days of lockdown — are...

New Virus Cases Begin to Slow in U.S. Cities Where Omicron Hit First

At another bleak moment of the pandemic in the United States — with nearly 800,000 new cases a day, deaths rising and federal medical...

This Covid Surge Feels Different

annie correalFrom The New York Times, I’m Annie Correal, in for Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.Today: Despite its reputation for mild illness, the...

Covid Treatments Including Paxlovid Are Rationed as Cases Spike

At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, scarce ventilators and protective equipment faced strict rationing. Today, as the pandemic rages into its...

Xi’an Is China’s Biggest Covid Challenge Since Wuhan

Every two days at the University of Xi’an in China, cleaners dressed in white hazmat suits taped tight to their bodies disinfect the dormitory...

India’s Rising Omicron Wave Brings a Grim Sense of Déjà Vu

NEW DELHI — When the Omicron coronavirus variant spread through India late in December, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the nation to be vigilant...

A New Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts This Week

Several studies found that around 20 percent of U.S. patients who had emergency care were treated by someone outside of their insurance network, including...

Amid Omicron There’s Still Hope, an I.C.U. Doctor Says

Walking through the intensive care unit on one recent afternoon, I took in a familiar sight — half a dozen patients intubated and sedated...

How America’s ICUs Are Dealing with Another Christmas of Death and Distress

INDIANAPOLIS — Of all the Covid patients that Ronda Stevenson is treating over Christmas, there’s one she cannot stop thinking about. He has been...

Doctors and Nurses Are ‘Living in a Constant Crisis’ as Covid Fills Hospitals

SAGINAW, Mich. — On the top floor of the hospital, in the unit that houses the sickest Covid-19 patients, 13 of the 14 beds...

I’m an E.R. Doctor in Michigan, Where Unvaccinated People Are Filling Hospital Beds

Recently a patient in his 70s came seeking care at the small rural hospital in West Michigan where I’ve worked as an emergency physician...

Upstate New York Hospitals Are Overwhelmed as Covid Cases Surge

A surge in Covid cases and a shortage of health care workers is filling hospitals and nursing homes past their capacity in upstate New...

Rural Health Care Providers Get $7.5 Billion in Relief Funds

The Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday that it had begun distributing billions of dollars to rural health care providers to...

Germany’s Fourth Covid Wave: ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’

BERLIN — The University Hospital of Giessen, one of Germany’s foremost clinics for pulmonary disease, is at capacity. The number of Covid-19 patients has...

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