24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital: An Update

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. When New York City was the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., Sheri Fink, a public health correspondent for The Times, was embedded at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. In April, she brought us the story of a single day in its intensive care unit, where a majority of patients were sick with the virus. Today, we check back in with one of the doctors we heard from on the episode, the unflappable Dr. Josh Rosenberg. Guest: Sheri Fink, a correspondent covering public health for The New York Times. For an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the latest edition here. Background reading:“Covid will not win” — here are some portraits and interviews with the staff members powering the Brooklyn Hospital Center. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Michael. Starting today, the daily is revisiting our favorite episodes of the year,
0:07.0	listening back and hearing what's happened in the time since they first ran.
0:12.5	Up first, a story from this spring, when New York City was the epicenter of the pandemic.
0:19.7	It's Thursday, December 24th. So every morning in the intensive care unit at the Brooklyn Hospital Center,
0:35.2	the doctor's gather for something called morning report. So now I want you all to
0:40.5	examine it very clearly. The people who were on overnight, they stand around and the head doctor
0:48.8	is there and they kind of give a report of what happened and then the new doctors who are coming
0:53.8	on, they get that information. Yeah, when she was at rest this morning, she was being 23, she's
0:58.8	very comfortable, thumbs up. They talk about, you know, who was admitted, who got critically ill.
1:04.4	So overnight patient was not there, was there to be re-intimated, almost immediately.
1:12.0	And one recent morning report was particularly intense.
1:17.6	Okay, all right. Okay, next patient got a report. There were patients in their 80s and patients in
1:23.5	their 30s. In the open, the next, obviously, the MSTIC, she was in today yesterday evening.
1:30.7	I was happy. All right, good, next. There were patients from nursing homes and patients who were
1:36.8	homeless. Paceants with asthma and diabetes and patients with no underlying conditions at all.
1:53.1	But as the doctors raced to get through the cases,
1:55.7	next patient got a report. They all shared a nearly identical description.
1:59.6	He was upgraded for acute hypoxic respiratory failure. Okay, next.
2:03.2	They'll give us a birth to a third failure secondary confirmed COVID. All right, next.
2:06.4	It's been a 4Q hypoxic respiratory failure with confirmed COVID-19.
2:10.4	Next. A 4Q hypoxic respiratory failure.
2:13.2	Acute hypoxic respiratory failure. Secondary to COVID-19.
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