The six-month stockpile of protective equipment that the hospital had prepared was gone, Mr. Steiner said, in seven days. The 14 medical intensive care unit beds were filled within two days of the first wave of coronavirus patients; they converted 12 cardiac I.C.U. beds, but those, too, were filled two days later; 12 beds in the surgical I.C.U. were filled three days after that, Mr. Steiner said. “You get to the point where you say, ‘If I don’t have the staff, I can’t care for the patients.’”

Source: New York Times March 30, 2020 22:00 UTC