A woman and child prepare to step into a line to enter a COVID-19 testing site at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. New York has enacted strict rules to keep residents inside as much as possible other than for essential needs such as food and medicine. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
March 26, 2020
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On NYC's front lines, health workers worry they will be next
NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse died from coronavirus after working nonstop for weeks at a hospital where staffers frustrated with dwindling supplies posed in gowns made of trash bags. An emergency room doctor fears he had the virus long before getting too sick to work. Another nurse worries the lone mask she’s issued each day won’t be enough to protect her from an unending tide of hacking, feverish patients.