Over a dozen coronavirus patients died in a 24-hour period at the hospital.
The city of New York now has more than 17,000 coronavirus cases, nearly one-third of the nation’s total. The borough of Queens has the highest number, with over 5,000 cases. There have been 280 deaths in the city, according to officials.
"We’ve almost run out of ventilators twice, but in the nick of time we received them," said Smith. The ventilators that saved them came from fellow hospitals in Coney Island and elsewhere in Queens. A health worker speaks to a person at the Elmhurst Hospital Center who arrived to be be tested for the coronavirus disease in Queens, New York City, U.S., March 23, 2020.Multiple emergency room workers, doctors and nurses on the front line at Elmhurst spoke to ABC News to describe the conditions there. Most declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Sources inside the hospital said they are seeing relatively young and seemingly healthy people hardest-hit by this virus. A medical worker directs a patient to enter a COVID-19 testing site at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York.
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