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

Informationally I give this book a 5, but it needed some editing, badly. Just too much overlap and it threw too many characters at you. Worth the read but there were several times where I wasn't sure I'd finish. Although it stepped outside the hospital system several times to appropriately take on T......more

This stunning account of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City is utterly jaw dropping. The situation in New York is described as an almost war- zone like situation between the researches/first responders and the government officials playing down the pandemic’s severity to win votes. Many of us wat......more

This is a fascinating and important book, which tells the harsh reality of one NY hospital system as its people struggle through the pandemic’s early peak. My rating - only three stars - is based on my opinion that this read desperately, desperately needed a better editor. It reads like an undergrad......more

This book is the story of New York Presbyterian Cornell Hospital (NYP) during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author got unprecedented access to interview dozens if not more of hospital staff from the corporate suites to the front-line ICU workers. She even got permission to tell some......more

We all remember the desperate hours in New York City; the makeshift morgues, the hospital ship standing by, the outpouring of gratitude for health care workers every evening with a pots and pans tribute, and the fear. Healthcare workers survived the worst of it, by far. The New York Presbyterian cha......more