The outbreak that invented intensive care

A heroic community effort at a daring hospital saved lives, led to today’s ventilators and revolutionized medicine — it holds lessons for our times.

1. Hannah Wunsch

   1. Hannah Wunsch is an expert in the comparative epidemiology of intensive care. She is a professor of anaesthesia and intensive-care medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada, and a Canada research chair in critical-care organization and outcomes. She is writing a book about the Copenhagen polio epidemic and the birth of intensive care. She is a practising intensive-care physician at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto