SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Two months ago at Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Dr. Morris Grabie stood at a makeshift plastic wall in the intensive care unit and prayed. “Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam,” he began in Hebrew, the sterile divider behind him sealing off the patients with Covid-19 from the uninfected. Pain and grief, life and death, fear and loss — month after grinding month — all of it had unfolded behind that thin divider. And yet on this day, not a single patient in the Saint John’s I.C.U. Dr. Grabie turned, and the I.C.U.’s medical director, helped by a respiratory therapist, zipped the wall open.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2021 18:10 UTC