Queens is the worst affected district in the worst affected city in the world and Mount Sinai hospital is on the front line
"9/11 was nothing compared to this," Dr Kasspidis says."We were open waiting for patients to come who never came, ok? Now they just keep coming."In an internal email, Mount Sinai's Chief Medical Officer told staff it was the"humanitarian mission of their lifetimes".
Mount Sinai Queens has screened off part of its reception area to create a makeshift ward. Every little space is used."Right now it's every day, it's non-stop, literally," said Doron Goldman Barkan, a Respiratory Therapist. "A lot of people come, they expire and you put the same machine on another person and you can't really process the situation because it's so hard to think about this"
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