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  • Fresh Faces, Fewer Tools: Meet the New Bosses Fighting Covid

    Nick Ehli, KHN|Nov 3, 2021

    VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. - Emilie Sayler's roots run deep in southwestern Montana. She serves on a nearby town council and the board of the local Little League. She went to college in a neighboring county and regularly volunteers in the schools of her three kids. Just a few months into her new job as public health director for Madison County, she had hoped that those local connections might make a difference, that the fewer than 10,000 residents spread out across this agricultural region would see...

  • Postcard From an Overrun ICU: 'The Problem Is We Are Running Out of Hallways'

    Nick Ehli, KHN|Sep 29, 2021

    Nurses fill the hospital room to turn a patient from his stomach to his back. The ventilator forcing air into him is most effective when he's on his stomach, so he is in that position most hours of the day, sedated and paralyzed by drugs. Lying on his stomach all those hours has produced sores on his face, and one nurse dabs at the wounds. The dark lesions are insignificant given his current state, but she continues just the same, gently, soothingly, appearing to whisper to him as she works....