When the novel coronavirus made its way to the United States, it landed here, in the Pacific Northwest. Transmission is a podcast about life at the heart of an epidemic. Today's episode: Stretched … we consider what happens when our health care system is pushed to the limits. Hospitals and health workers have been bracing for a key moment in the pandemic, when the number of very sick patients outstrips our resources to treat them. We talk with Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health