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The anesthesiologist’s beeper goes off — it’s an emergency call to place a breathing tube in a patient critically ill with coronavirus, a dangerous procedure due to the risk of viral transmission. Because of Covid-19, these calls are increasingly frequent; the intensity level in the hospital is like nothing she’s ever imagined. She barely has time to register her…