...the sad, sobering unnecessary aftermath...
Hospitals began to transform themselves in the middle of March as horror stories from Italy convinced authorities they had to free-up room on wards and in intensive care units for potential COVID-19 sufferers.
New trials of experimental drugs, often the last best hope for patients with metastatic cancers, have also been halted.
Almost 200,000 surgeries and other procedures, cancer screening tests and clinical trials of experimental medicines were shelved indefinitely as hospitals braced for a possible flood of COVID-19 patients.
A deluge that never quite materialized.
Meanwhile, many hospitals have sat barely half-full.
