THE CORONAVIRUS FIRST SMASHED INTO EUROPE with a wave of infections that nearly broke its hospitals — exhausting, infecting and killing doctors and nurses. Lockdowns created some space in intensive care wards over the summer. But the reprieve was short lived.
Since the fall, the continent has watched with horror, and paralysis, as another wave struck with nearly equal force — and in some places far more. Hospital corridors were crammed again, respirators overloaded. As death rates spiked, governments imposed new, though watered-down, restrictions, hoping to salvage their economies while keeping the virus at bay. Written by Jason Horowitz publish on The New York Times, link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/22/world/europe/covid-europe-hospitals.html
