The highly contagious coronavirus variant stretched the city’s health care system to the breaking point, but not past it. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Hospitals”
What the Omicron Wave Looks Like at One Brooklyn Hospital Emergency Room
By Gotham Rex on January 15, 2022
The nature of this variant, combined with widespread vaccine use, may make it seem less severe in some ways than earlier ones. It doesn’t always feel that like that here. Source: New York Times
‘It’s too much.’ Nurses say N.Y.C. hospitals are overrun with Covid patients.
By Gotham Rex on January 13, 2022
Nurses described overrun emergency rooms and hospital floors filled to capacity as they struggle to care for a surging number of patients with fewer staff. Source: New York Times
Desperate Search for Those Missing in Bronx Fire: ‘We’re Still Waiting’
By Gotham Rex on January 11, 2022
Two days after the fire, the city released a partial list of the deceased. Source: New York Times
More Patients, Fewer Workers: Omicron Pushes New York Hospitals to Brink
By Gotham Rex on January 7, 2022
The current spike in coronavirus cases appears to be less deadly than earlier waves, but some safety-net hospitals are still being severely strained. Source: New York Times
Despite Rising Hospitalizations, Omicron Is Not Worse for Children
By Gotham Rex on December 28, 2021
More children are being treated for Covid, but a combination of factors, including low vaccination rates, most likely explains the increase. Source: New York Times
As Omicron Cases Surge, CDC Shortens Isolation Times for Many Americans
By Gotham Rex on December 27, 2021
Hoping to prevent further disruptions to daily life, the C.D.C. reduced the period that certain infected Americans must sequester. Source: New York Times
C.D.C. Shortens Covid Isolation Period for Health Care Workers
By Gotham Rex on December 23, 2021
The agency issued revised guidelines as Omicron cases climb and hospitals grapple with worker shortages that have left wards understaffed. Source: New York Times
Hospitals Scramble as Antibody Treatments Fail Against Omicron
By Gotham Rex on December 21, 2021
The single remaining monoclonal antibody therapy effective against the variant is now in short supply in the U.S., imperiling an option that doctors and hospitals have relied on. Source: New York Times
Upstate New York Hospitals Are Overwhelmed as Covid Cases Surge
By Gotham Rex on December 3, 2021
Health care officials say a “perfect storm” of new Covid cases, staff shortages and filled nursing homes has created a crisis. Source: New York Times
Buffalo Officials Reimpose a Mask Mandate as Cases Surge
By Gotham Rex on November 23, 2021
Cases have doubled in Erie County over four weeks, prompting the return of a mask requirement for stores, restaurants, bars, salons, and other public indoor spaces. Source: New York Times
She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?
By Gotham Rex on November 7, 2021
Heidi Ferrer’s family feared her organs were unsafe. The case points to gaps in protocols for organ donation amid the pandemic. Source: New York Times
After Years of Sexual Abuse Allegations, How Did This Doctor Keep Working?
By Gotham Rex on October 11, 2021
Hospital staff members looked the other way while Ricardo Cruciani addicted vulnerable women to pain medications and assaulted them, according to a new lawsuit. Source: New York Times
New York's Vaccine Mandate: What to Know
By Gotham Rex on September 29, 2021
In courtrooms from Manhattan to Utica, judges are weighing whether exemptions that would cover thousands of health care workers will be allowed. Source: New York Times
Vaccine Mandate Leads Thousands of New York Health Workers to Get Vaccinated
By Gotham Rex on September 28, 2021
Though many hospital and nursing home employees remain unvaccinated, officials say worst-case staffing shortages seem less likely. Source: New York Times