The Desperate Hours One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

Marie Brenner

eBook - 2022

AWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York—a city in crisis—based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic.In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City.Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York's hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have?Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital s...ystem, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200... more