A pandemic year
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Reflecting on the anniversary of the pandemic, from the eyes of a nurse on New York\\u2019s front lines.
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Jessica Montanaro thrives in a high-stakes, high-pressure world. As a nurse at an intensive care unit in New York City\\u2019s Mount Sinai Hospital, Montanaro is accustomed to leaping into action when patients\\u2019 lives are at stake. And when the coronavirus hit the U.S., Montanaro, like so many health-care workers, found herself at the center of the chaos.
One year after the WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic, Montanaro reflects on her experiences caring for an influx of covid-19 patients and battling exhaustion and grief in her ICU. In this episode, producer Bishop Sand brings us into Montanaro\\u2019s world, as the virus drastically \\u2014 and permanently \\u2014 changed it.
Nearly a year ago, Post Reports did another story about Mount Sinai as doctors and nurses braced themselves for the worst of the surge in New York City. Listen back to \\u201cA New York hospital transformed by the pandemic.
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