In many parts of the country, the virus is winning. States in the greater New York area played the long game, taking early economic hits that have helped health, the economy and education in the long run
In Connecticut, we saw the COVID-19 tidal wave approaching from New York. We prepared. And then the patients came, at first like the drizzle before the hurricane that followed. As an infectious diseases specialist, I took care of our first COVID-19 patient in the ICU, intubated and in prone position . We tried multiple therapies, but my patient and his spouse, both in the ICU, died. At Yale…
