Inside a Colorado hospital’s COVID-19 unit, a quiet fight to keep coronavirus patients breathing

AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver PostNurse Amy Cooper speaks through a glass door to nurse Veronica Duffy as Cooper and fellow medical professionals sedate a patient for intubating in the ICU Covid ward at the Medical Center of Aurora.
The patient, sitting on the side of her hospital bed, is one of the few awake in the pod. Many are in medically induced comas so their bodies won’t fight the blue-and-white tubes connecting them to the machines that breathe for them.
Their lungs are too damaged,