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

English

By (author): Marie Brenner

In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, Americas largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasnt somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New Yorks hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. But The Desperate Hours is more than a thrilling account of medicine under extreme pressure. It is an intimate portrait of courageous men and women coming together in their devotion to duty, their families, each other, and the city they loved more than any other. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 590g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 224mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: Flatiron Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781250837158

About Marie Brenner

Marie Brenner is the author of seven books and writer at large for Vanity Fair. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker a contributing editor at New York and has won numerous awards for her reporting around the world. Her exposé of the tobacco industry was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider which was nominated for seven Academy Awards® including Best Picture. She is also a producer of the 2019 documentary Where's My Roy Cohn?

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