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USA. ‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn Hospital Center

USA. ‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn Hospital Center

During the surge of Covid-19 cases this spring that filled the Brooklyn Hospital Center’s emergency room and intensive care unit with the critically ill and the dying, the staff went in day after day, trying to save as many lives as they could. Now they are bracing for a second wave.
These portraits of the hospital staff were taken during the grueling first wave. In interviews in recent months, the workers reflected on that period — what they had lived through and how they had coped, what they had learned and how it had changed them.
From the doctors and nurses to the workers serving behind the scenes, each had a vital role to play, and each knew that playing it could be fatal. Fighting this disease required sacrifice and courage from the laundry room and the supply depot, the laboratory and the security desk — throughout the hospital, all the way to the chief executive’s office. (New York Times, USA, 11.09.2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/nyregion/coronavirus-brooklyn-hospital-workers.html