Inside an overwhelmed emergency room
A Rhode Island emergency department provides a window into how front-line health-care workers are coping with the latest covid surge. And a conversation about how Andr\xe9 Leon Talley embodied the heart of the fashion world.
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Laura Forman, Kent Hospital\u2019s emergency department director, says that her days dealing with a deluge of covid patients involves a lot of \u201cbest bad options.\u201d Reporters Joyce Koh and Lenny Bernstein reported from Rhode Island, where overwhelmed emergency staff have been forced to see patients in their cars. Forman says her staff are burning out \u2013 and the conditions are the worst she\u2019s seen in her 26-year career.
Fashion icon Andr\xe9 Leon Talley died this week at the age of 73. Talley was the former creative director of American Vogue, the first and only black person to hold that position. Senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan interviewed Talley many times over the years \u2013 and they were also friends.
\u201cHe had an incredible capacity for generosity. And it came through in a way that was just as grand as his personality,\u201d Givhan says.