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Elmhurst Hospital, the epicenter of the epicenter
2020
79-01 Broadway, Elmhurst, Queens
Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In late March 2020 this public hospital was running at more than twice its capacity, refrigerated trailers were parked outside for the dead, and roughly a third of the city's Covid patients were coming from Elmhurst and the blocks around it. Its staff described the ward code for a patient about to die being called several times a shift. The neighbourhood is full of essential workers in crowded apartments, which is most of the reason why.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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