Desperate Hours One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

"A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis - based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting - that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York's hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? In The Desperate Hours, award-winning journalist Marie Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 intervi

ISBN:	9781250805737
Publisher:	Flatiron Books
Imprint:	Flatiron Books
Published date:	21 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	362.196241409747
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220502
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiv, 481
Weight:	771g
Height:	236mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	44mm

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