We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers. We talk in terms of days.
Brown paper bags line the windowsill of the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Eskenazi Hospital in downtown Indianapolis. The bags are filled with the N95 masks we’re reusing, labeled with the handwritten names of my staff: Patrick, Angela, Brittany. They are mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters.
As of this writing, we are caring for more than double our average number of ICU patients and using more than triple our average number …
