One public hospital in Los Angeles is at a level below triage when it will have to discourage people from coming altogether Medical staff perform a tracheotomy on a covid patient intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images) In Boston, pediatric wards are being consolidated to fit all the adults battling covid-19. Philadelphia hospitals are once again barring family visitors due to transmission worries. And in Los Angeles, a public hospital canceled elective and scheduled surgeries because it cannot spare ICU beds. Mounting hospitalizations in these and other states are pushing some hospital systems to near breaking points, with many scrambling to reconfigure themselves to handle a crush of patients streaming in after holiday gatherings and the arrival of flu season. Hospitals reported more than 110,000 coronavirus patients on each of the past two days, a record count for the pandemic, according […]