Seven Days, Hundreds of Deaths: New York's Worst Week Yet Tests Its Coronavirus Response
Sharon Pollard, director for respiratory care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., had eight ventilators left and needed more. Overnight, at least 17 new patients required them.
Teams at the hospital unloaded ventilators delivered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The machines were bound for a central depot to distribute to many other hospitals. Ms. Pollard asked if they would leave some at her hospital, which had more than 400 coronavirus patients, many of them growing worse and others still arriving.
She asked for 25 and got 15. “We’ll take anything,” she said.
New York City hospitals faced the full force of the pandemic in recent days, as the coronavirus disease surged through the city and on Monday claimed 731 lives, the highest number of deaths in a single day.
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