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AWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New Yorka city in crisisbased 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?

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 interviews

The Desperate Hours

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      Publisher Flatiron Books
      Published 17 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250837158
      978-1250837158
      ISBN-10 1250837154
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      Human coronaviruses

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      AWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New Yorka city in crisisbased 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?

      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 interviews

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