EditorialManny Garcia, a 26-year-old construction worker and avid soccer player from Oxnard, in the intensive care unit at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., Sept. 9, 2021. (Isadora Kosofsky/The New York Times)
EditorialDiana Calderon visits one of two surviving triplets in the neonatal intensive care unit at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, June 23, 2022. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Myron Rolle makes the rounds in the neuro intensive care unit during a night shift at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sept. 23, 2022. (Ryan Christopher Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialLachlan Rutledge, 6, who has a connective tissue disorder, severe allergies and asthma, which have landed him repeatedly in pediatric intensive care, at his home in Broken Arrow, Okla. on Oct. 3, 2022. (Melissa Lukenbaugh/The New York Times)
EditorialA new intensive care unit at Doylestown Hospital in Pennsylvania has private rooms meant to shift between intensive care and step-down care. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
EditorialA nurse tends to a child at an intensive care unit for severe cases at the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 12, 2022. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialStaff members confer at the “escalation” intensive care unit at Homerton University Hospital in East London on Jan. 21, 2022. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialThe intensive care unit at Singing River Hospital, the only acute-care facility in Pascagoula, Miss., Jan. 12, 2022. (Rory Doyle/The New York Times)
EditorialA healthcare worker prepares a room for a new patient in the intensive care unit at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, Jan. 12, 2022. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialA new book offers guidance on how family members can support a critically ill loved one who ends up in the hospital’s intensive care unit. (Rachel Levit Ruiz/The New York Times)