As hospitals across the country move toward recovery and reopening, others in new COVID-19 hot spots are feeling the impact of surging ED visits, stretched capacity, and rapid response measures. As hospital responses vary, the one emerging reality of the coronavirus pandemic is the American healthcare system will face a new normal for the foreseeable future. For the past several months the healthcare delivery system has been faced with unprecedented challenges. COVID-19 patients flooded into some hospitals, nonemergent procedures and…