The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis – based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting – that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic

In the spring of 202…

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