New York's Empire State Building was lit up like an ambulance siren on Monday night in tribute to medical workers fighting coronavirus. The Empire State Realty Trust said the lights symbolized 'America’s heartbeat and a siren of red and white'.
"This is the whole of America approach, the cooperation we're seeing all the way from the public, private to the interagency, to the state, local and federal part of it," said Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, who led the effort to convert a New York convention center into a hospital to respond to a rapid increase in patients.
"There is not enough of anything," one trauma physician at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital said."There are just so many patients who are so sick, it seems impossible to keep up with the demand."New York's Central Park and harbor are now home to makeshift hospitalsInside New York City's Elmhurst hospital, one doctor told CNN"we are at the brink of not being able to care for patients.
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