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24 Feb

For the past year, intensive care units have been overwhelmed with Covid patients and the complexity of care they require.

Here is a look at how hospitals have been dealing with their critically ill patients and how they have been forced to adjust. nyti.ms/2ZKC8FS

Before Covid, about two-thirds of ICU beds were full with patients needing life-support technology and close monitoring. But during Covid surges, especially early in the pandemic, ICU beds filled up and the share of non-Covid patients often dropped. nyti.ms/2ZKC8FS

Some hospitals have had to create new ICU areas, including using hallways and spare rooms.

Not only do beds fill up, but the complexity of care needed for Covid patients requires some hospitals to pull in staff from other departments. nyti.ms/2ZKC8FS

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23 Feb

The greatest threat to President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on Syria is not the rebel factions he’s been fighting for a decade or the foreign powers that control large parts of the country. It’s the economic crisis that’s left Syrians without enough to eat. nyti.ms/3qJgOMS

Syria’s economy is worse than at any time since the war began in 2011. Its currency reached an all-time low against the dollar on the black market, food prices have more than doubled in the last year and 60% of Syrians are at risk of going hungry. nyti.ms/3qJgOMS

Many Syrians devote their days to finding fuel to cook and warm their homes, and standing in long lines for rationed pita bread. Some areas get only a few hours of electricity a day, barely enough for people to keep their cellphones charged. nyti.ms/3qJgOMS

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23 Feb

The rising psychological and physical toll of the pandemic in Japan has been accompanied by a spike in suicide among women. The burdens have been compounded by the stresses of a culture grounded in social cohesion and peer pressure to drive compliance. nyti.ms/2Nq9xU0

In Japan, 6,976 women took their lives last year, nearly 15% more than in 2019. It was the first year-over-year increase in more than a decade. More than two-thirds of the women were unemployed. nyti.ms/2Nq9xU0

In Tokyo, about 22% of women live alone; working mothers have struggled with deep disparities in housework in the work-from-home era; and some women have experienced a rise in domestic violence and sexual assault. nyti.ms/2Nq9xU0

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21 Feb

After a year of racial reckonings, Carnival would have brought a much-needed release for revelers around the world. Instead, the pandemic canceled many of these celebrations. We asked would-be partyers about what they missed most. nyti.ms/2NkhRVi

Carnival’s history is long. In the late 1700s, French colonists in Trinidad began hosting masquerade balls that the enslaved population was banned from attending. Undeterred, the enslaved peoples hosted their own festivals. nyti.ms/2MaNKPk

Annual celebrations like J’Ouvert in Brooklyn, Caribana in Toronto and Notting Hill Carnival in London are outgrowths of the celebrations in Trinidad, Antigua, Barbados and the Dominican Republic. nyti.ms/2NPocYl

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21 Feb

As federal prosecutors unveil charges in the assault on the Capitol, they've highlighted two militant groups — the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — as having done the most premeditation. nyti.ms/3scVe3I

The groups differ in their focus and tactics, but conspiracy charges indicate that members of both may have worked together. Of the 22 people charged with conspiracy crimes, 18 were known to have ties to one of those two groups. nyti.ms/2ZEUrw6

More than a third of the militants were also known to have military experience, a far higher proportion than in the crowd as a whole. Of the 31 group members who have been charged so far, at least 11 had a military record. This may have been intentional. nyti.ms/2ZEUrw6

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21 Feb

An unfathomable toll is nearing in the U.S. — the loss of half a million people to the coronavirus.

Each death has left untold numbers of mourners. And each death has left an empty space in communities across America. nyti.ms/2ZEJhYe

The virus has reached every corner of America, devastating dense cities and rural counties alike.

In New York City, one in 295 people have died of the virus. In Lamb County, Texas, where 13,000 people live, one in 163 people has died of the virus. nyti.ms/2ZEJhYe

Some families have moved away from the places that are so painfully entwined with memories.

Karlee Greer recently left the house where her father, Michael Horton, passed away. nyti.ms/2ZEJhYe

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