weird gets weirder
How Elmhurst Hospital's Covid response reshaped the city's health care
Five years ago, much of the city and the world adopted a new vocabulary to describe unprecedented events: Quarantine, social distance, shelter in place, curve, wave, ventilator triage, surge. At the top of the list were two Coronas: the virus and the neighborhood in Queens – the global epicenter of the pandemic.
At the heart of the epicenter was Elmhurst Hospital, a safety-net facility serving Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Woodside and other neighborhoods in Northern Queens, hubs of immigration and global travel where cramped
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/five-years-later-elmhurst-hospital-shaped-pandemic-scars-and-lessons
kek it sure did. remember the piles of "dead bodies," some of them smoking cigarettes?