A battle-weary Seattle hospital fights the latest COVID-19 surge
Print article SEATTLE — As hospitals across the country weather a surge of COVID-19 patients, in Seattle — an early epicenter of the outbreak — nurses, respiratory therapists and physicians are staring down a startling resurgence of the coronavirus that’s expected to test even one of the best-prepared hospitals on the pandemic’s front lines. After nine months, the staff at Harborview Medical Center, the large public hospital run by the University of Washington, has the benefit of experience. In March, the Harborview staff was already encountering the realities of COVID-19 that ar...