Our reporter Sheri Fink and photographer Victor J. Blue went inside a temporary ICU at a Brooklyn hospital where coronavirus deaths have grown fivefold in the past week. About a third of the staff is out sick. Their message: "Stay home. Protect yourself." Read more: https://nyti.ms/349qVQC | The New York Times

One in five hospital ICUs in the U.S. now has at least 95% of beds occupied, as the Delta variant fuels a surge of coronavirus cases. These maps show where ICU beds are nearly full due to Covid-19 cases. After months of improvement from the winter wave of hospitalizations, a new wave of cases has worsened the situation once again. See where the crisis areas are concentrated. https://nyti.ms/3sub63k | The New York Times

Our doctors participate in the Patient Care Experience program at Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. | President Irfaan Ali