Outline April 1, 2020
Our collection of disparate and competing public and private companies were never going to be able to handle a pandemic.
Last November, I found myself wedged between a rolling partition and a wall in the corner of NYU Langone’s pediatric emergency room. On the other side of the divider, a young woman was crying out in pain from a possibly infected appendix. She was on the phone, and we were close enough that I could hear the other end of the conversation. The two of us were sandwiched into a single bay — a doorless cupboard that might pass for a bedroom in particularly coveted areas of Manhattan — and there was only one set of supplies and machines for...
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