Fierce Healthcare March 14, 2021
Editor’s note: It’s been a year since COVID-19 changed everything. We take a look back at some of the pandemic’s biggest impacts.
Just about a year ago, Providence health system’s supply chief Brad Alexander was looking at early epidemiological models of COVID-19 when he began to realize just how disruptive the virus might become.
The models, which were showing how cases could ramp up in the U.S., painted a startling picture.
“It was projected to swamp our (intensive care unit) capacity and hospitalizations,” he told Fierce Healthcare in an interview. “I did the rough math on terms of (personal protective equipment). I knew it would be an incredible disruption on our delivery system.”
So Alexander, group vice president of supply...
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