Jan. 9, 2021 4:30 p.m. ET
Ming Kuo was helping a Covid-19 patient at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center in Southern California when the crowded emergency room poured into the hallway. “It’s a desperate time,” said Dr. Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “This is what we’ve been warning about for a year now.” The wave of coronavirus cases is crowding out major metro hospitals with Covid-19 patients, pushing the occupancy against the confines of space and overwhelming nurses and doctors. Read more.
“I’m six feet tall, and unfortunately I don’t fit many cars,” says Roy Piscitello in his 2010 Bentley Continental GTC Speed, with his grandsons Matthew, 6, and John, 4, who own toy Bentleys. . . Read more.
Marc Epstein at his Milk Street Café in Boston, which he plans to reopen with the help of a Main Street loan when employees return to downtown offices. The Main Street Lending Program allowed banks to sell 95% of all credit to the government, but some resisted because potential borrowers had lost so much business. Read more.