‘Very confident’: NYC hospitals prepare for virus resurgence
Like battle-hardened veterans, New York City hospitals and nursing homes are bracing for a potential resurgence of coronavirus patients, drawing on lessons learned in the spring when the outbreak brought the nation’s largest city to its knees.
The new playbook derives from the apocalyptic days of March and April, when testing and resources were scarce, emergency rooms overflowed, and funeral homes stacked corpses in refrigerated trailers.
Those insights, however hard-won, make it far less likely that the city’s hospitals would collapse under a second wave of COVID-19, health care leaders said.