“Inside the Intensive Care Unit on the eighth floor of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, the IV drip bags are eerily out of place.
Instead of hanging on metal stands next to the patients’ beds, they’re all out in the hallway — with extra-long tubing delivering drugs, nourishment and fluids to critically ill coronavirus victims in rooms behind closed doors.
The drastic measure — which allows doctors and nurses to treat people without exposure to their deadly disease — was shown to The Post during an exclusive tour of the hospital as it braces for the expected “apex” of the outbreak in New York later this month.
Inside the ICU rooms, 26 patients were lying in beds on Tuesday, more than twice the normal caseload of just 12.
Dickman said it was unclear how much more devastation the coronavirus would wreak.
“We don’t know where we are on the curve. Is it going to be more of a steep curve? Are we flattening the curve?” he said.
Borgen said that while no Maimonides workers had stopped coming to work, “the fear, the anxiety, the apprehension is clearly there with the employees.””
https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/a-look-inside-an-nyc-hospital-amid-the-coronavirus-crisis/
