24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital

<p><em>Note: This episode contains strong language. </em></p><p>More than a month since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the majority of patients — some of whom are doctors themselves — in Brooklyn Hospital Center’s 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.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/sheri-fink?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">Sheri Fink</a>, a correspondent for The New York Times covering public health, who spoke with Dr. Josh Rosenberg and his colleagues at Brooklyn Hospital Center’s intensive care unit.</p><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Test 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 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/coronavirus-brooklyn-hospital.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">keeps showing up</a>.</li><li>On their shifts, medical workers <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/nyregion/coronavirus-births-mothers.html" target="_blank">throughout the hospital</a> face unrelenting chaos. At one point while our reporter shadowed, three “codes” — emergency interventions when someone is on the brink of death — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/nyregion/coronavirus-hospital-brooklyn.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">occurred at once</a>.</li></ul>