Hospital workers in Nevada this spring trained their eyes on New York and held their breath.
Facilities across the state dramatically reduced their hospital censuses, postponed elective surgeries and prepared overflow bed spaces, including, in one instance, in a hospital parking garage. Health care workers watched the news reports of their counterparts across the country struggling to treat a deadly illness they knew little about as refrigerated trucks lined up outside hospitals to gather bodies of coronavirus victims.
Everyday Nevadans were ordered to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All non-essential business were shuttered across the state.
The hospital workers waited and waited, but the surge never came.
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