“He has a high chance of getting tubed” and needing a ventilator, Rosenberg told colleagues. In the new ICU, a repurposed chemotherapy infusion unit, blue plastic gowns fluttered from door hinges, ...

The night had been particularly tough. Patient after patient had to be intubated and put on a ventilator to breathe. At one point, three “codes” — emergency interventions when someone is on the brink ...