“I needed to understand the fear that overcame everyone who stayed in New York throughout the surge of March and April [ 2020] as hospitals in the city were overwhelmed—and to understand those whose lives are lived as a calling to save every life they can. I would discover that many of my questions would not have an easy answer: What draws people to fight for the common good in a crisis? How can people expose themselves to so much risk?”
It was those questions—and this city—that Marie Brenner writes about in The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines. If there was ever to be a soulful, passionate, thorough, movie-worthy history of the pandemic in New York City, and its desperate effect on a hospital system, this book was and is it.
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