Thousands were sick. Hundreds were lost. This is how the coronavirus ravaged a vibrant corner of New York. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Hospitals”
Dr. Mary Fowkes, 66, Dies; Helped Science Understand the Pandemic
By Gotham Rex on November 26, 2020
She performed autopsies in New York that found blood clots in vital organs, suggesting how much the virus spreads through the body. Source: New York Times
Emergency Hospital Reopening on Staten Island to Handle 2nd Wave
By Gotham Rex on November 23, 2020
In a move that recalls the pandemic’s peak in the spring, the hospital is reopening to handle a surge of coronavirus patients in the borough. Source: New York Times
The U.S. Has Lots of Ventilators — but Too Few Specialists to Mind Them
By Gotham Rex on November 22, 2020
A burst of production solved the dire shortage that defined the first wave of the coronavirus. But the surplus may not be enough to prevent large numbers of deaths. Source: New York Times
Virus Hospitalizations Are Up in N.Y.C. But This Time, It’s Different.
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
Patients with serious cases are spending less time in the hospital on average and are less likely to be put on ventilators. Fewer are dying. Source: New York Times
Coronavirus Brings a Medical Resident to the Bronx
By Gotham Rex on September 28, 2020
She put her career on hold to raise a family, but the pandemic gave her a chance to become a doctor. Source: New York Times
How to Keep the Coronavirus at Bay Indoors
By Gotham Rex on September 27, 2020
Tips for dodging the virus as Americans retreat from colder weather: Open the windows, buy an air filter — and forget the UV lights. Source: New York Times
Advice on Virus Transmission Vanishes From C.D.C. Website
By Gotham Rex on September 21, 2020
The new guidance, published only on Friday, had acknowledged that fine particles floating in air may spread the virus. Source: New York Times
‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn Hospital
By Gotham Rex on September 11, 2020
During the surge of Covid-19 cases this spring that filled Brooklyn Hospital 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…
Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise
By Gotham Rex on August 29, 2020
Some patients are still receiving staggering bills. Others don’t qualify because conditions other than Covid-19 were their primary diagnosis. Source: New York Times
Blame Spreads for Nursing Home Deaths Even as N.Y. Contains Virus
By Gotham Rex on July 23, 2020
With more than 6,000 nursing home residents dying of the coronavirus, a fight over whether relatives should be allowed to sue has erupted in Albany. Source: New York Times
This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients.
By Gotham Rex on July 21, 2020
Red tape and turf battles marked the race to create temporary hospitals for the coronavirus onslaught in New York. Source: New York Times
A Covid-19 Lesson: Some Seriously Ill Patients Can Be Treated at Home
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2020
To ease pressure on hospitals, Northwell Health brought medical workers, oxygen tanks and intravenous equipment into patients’ homes. Now Florida is taking cues. Source: New York Times
‘I Couldn’t Do Anything’: The Virus and an E.R. Doctor’s Suicide
By Gotham Rex on July 11, 2020
Dr. Lorna Breen was unflappable — until she faced a new enemy. Source: New York Times
Why Surviving Covid Might Come Down to Which NYC Hospital Admits You
By Gotham Rex on July 1, 2020
In New York City’s poor neighborhoods, some patients have languished in understaffed hospitals, with substandard equipment. It was a different story in Manhattan’s private medical centers. Source: New York Times