Health Affairs August, 2020
This month we continue our extensive coverage of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In addition to traditional empirical papers, this issue of Health Affairs includes a broad range of perspectives related to the pandemic.
COVID-19
When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States, the place hardest hit was New York City. New York City Health + Hospitals, the city’s safety-net system—and the largest such system in the country—became “the epicenter of the epicenter.” Four commentary articles published in this issue describe how that system expanded its physical and professional capacity and then connected that capacity to the diverse population it serves.
In the first of three Narrative Matters essays in this issue, David Scales, a hospitalist physician, describes the harrowing...
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