NEW YORK -- It has been hours since the 71-year-old man in Room 3 of the intensive care unit succumbed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. His body has been cleaned, packed in an orange bag and covered in a white sheet, but the overextended transport team from the morgue has yet to arrive.The
NEW YORK — It has been hours since the 71-year-old man in Room 3 of the intensive care unit succumbed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. His body has been cleaned, packed in an orange bag and covered in a white sheet, but the overextended transport team from the morgue has yet to arrive.
Every hospital in New York has struggled to cope with the pandemic, but the outbreak has laid bare the deep disparities in the city’s health care system. The virus is killing black and Latino New Yorkers at about twice the rate of white residents, and hospitals serving the sickest patients often work with the fewest resources.
Dr. Robert Foronjy, the hospital’s chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine, oversees the unit with the plastic tarps and duct tape. He said that he did not believe that any patients were lost because of inadequate resources. But the “aged and crumbling” facilities, he said, had made the job of caring for such patients much harder.
Not only did Riley worry about the resources that would be needed to provide care during a pandemic, he feared that the hospital’s patients would be particularly susceptible to the disease. Signs inside the hospital are written in English, Spanish and Creole, a reflection of the large number of immigrants in the area, particularly from the West Indies.
Riley, who became president in 2017, after the Bermuda birthday celebration, insisted that the limited resources had not affected the quality of care. The hospital, though, has at times been accused of violating safety standards. “We’re now in a situation where an underresourced hospital is being asked to manage the epicenter of the crisis,” said Zellnor Myrie, a Democratic state senator whose district includes University Hospital. “The dollars that we failed to invest years ago are affecting life-and-death decisions now.”The first patient with COVID-19 at University Hospital, a 74-year-old woman on dialysis with hypertension and diabetes, was identified March 12.
“It was just endless,” she said. “Code 99s would come in three, four different rooms, all within a few minutes of each other, all day long.”“We were stewing in it,” an emergency room doctor, Lorenzo Paladino, said. As the death toll began to mount, the bodies overwhelmed the hospital’s small, 10-person morgue. Then they filled not one but two refrigerated tractor-trailers parked outside.
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