24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital

Published: April 15, 2020, 9:55 a.m.

b'Note: This episode contains strong language.\\xa0\\n\\nMore than a month since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the majority of patients \\u2014 some of whom are doctors themselves \\u2014 in Brooklyn Hospital Center\\u2019s critical care unit have Covid-19. With permission from staff, patients and their families, we shadowed one doctor for a day to get a sense of what it is like on the front lines of the pandemic.\\n\\nGuest: Sheri Fink, a correspondent for The New York Times covering public health, who spoke with Dr. Josh Rosenberg and his colleagues at Brooklyn Hospital Center\\u2019s intensive care unit.\\n\\nFor more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.\\xa0\\n\\nBackground reading:\\xa0Test kits and protective gear have been in short supply, doctors are falling sick, and every day gets more difficult. But the staff at Brooklyn Hospital Center keeps showing up.On their shifts, medical workers throughout the hospital face unrelenting chaos. At one point while our reporter shadowed, three \\u201ccodes\\u201d \\u2014 emergency interventions when someone is on the brink of death \\u2014 occurred at once.'