Amid New York's 42,400 hospitalizations, the military handled 3 %. But it helped immeasurably.
NEW YORK —The days upon ruthless days of battling covid-19 are such a blur that Joseph Lieber can't remember the exact date the military showed up at his hospital offering to help.
Lieber, director of medicine at Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public medical facility in western Queens that was among the city’s hardest hit, said he maybe he got a phone call on a Saturday night that the Army wanted to send over a team — because he remembers he was working. Actually, he has worked every day for the past two months. He also hasn’t seen his three grandchildren, who live near him, since the city lockdown.
“You see, that was during our peak, peak, peak, peak,” he said. “We were in a bad way, let me tell you.” At one point, he described the situation — illness and daily death tolls beyond anything he’d seen working through every New York crisis in 36 years on the job — as “Dante’s Inferno.”
“I’m not going to lie to you,” he said. “This really feels like it’s the 11th plague.”
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