CHAMBÉRY, France—In a picket-paneled boardroom now not far from the packed intensive-care unit, the director of France’s hardest-hit smartly being facility this drop gathered his division heads for a Covid-19 disaster assembly. The next 48 hours figured to be decisive. Appropriate love every 48-hour stretch for the previous six weeks.
There were struggling patients who wished to be positioned on shrimp jets to less-crowded services and products spherical the country. There were nursing students on their advance to support dawdle crew shortages. And there changed into once the relentless high-wire…