Home / Law / Crime / Politics / Communities / Voices / All Stories / Who We Are / Terms and Conditions, The scene outside Elmhurst Hospital, epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, Click here to subscribe to the daily digital edition of the Queens Daily Eagle. Patients Friday queued up along metal railings as news crews filmed their slow trudge toward the front of the line. Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York is one of the oldest in the state and serves one of its largest and most diverse populations. Some said they had been there for hours. The city’s public Elmhurst Hospital in Queens has been overrun with seriously ill coronavirus patients — including 13 who died in a 24-hour span, officials said Wednesday. @nytimes has video from a hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. Since the end of last month, Elmhurst Hospital has been the center of the COVID-19 crisis in Queens, admitting about 200 patients who tested positive for the virus as of March 30. They gave this information to providers around the world. View a campus map. As we prayed for how our church could help, we felt burdened for the medical workers at Elmhurst Hospital. We also want to protect ourselves. Elmhurst Hospital - Main Campus. A man near the back of the line said he had been waiting for an hour. . The hospital — one of nine serving Queens’ 2.3 million residents — has been operating at 125 percent capacity as patients sickened by the novel coronavirus seek treatment, Patch reported. “We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying.”, “Five ventilators…there’s a mythical 100 ventilators out there that we haven’t seen.” https://t.co/zARPofu6pS pic.twitter.com/JxKl46H5RC, Wong described a scenario where everything is in short supply. They left to await their test results. Some came prepared for a wait, resting uneasily on travel stools, while others shook out tired legs or sat on the curb. A lot of these patients – they look good until they don’t. It is in the middle of our neighborhood. Get directions to Elmhurst Hospital. We want to love on these healthcare workers by providing regular hot meals and “on the go” snacks. It’s the beginning.”, She pointed also to misinformation from American politicians who downplayed the severity of the virus, even as other countries tried to warn the United States. Their lack of supplies, long hours, and daily witness of coronavirus deaths broke our hearts. At least 13 patients died from Covid-19 at Elmhurst Hospital in New York over 24 hours, according to a statement Wednesday from a spokesman for NYC Health and Hospitals/Elmhurst. Get directions to another Elmhurst facility. The line snaked down the block and into the roadway, as NYPD officers kept watch. She spoke with Refinery29 at 10pm on Tuesday, after coming off a long shift. Italy and Germany were examples for us of what we should have been doing as well.”. Since the city erected a testing tent outside Elmhurst Hospital, the medical center has been inundated with cases. “We don’t even have enough stretchers. It’s a public hospital, one of 11 operated by NYC Health and Hospitals, including Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx and Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. 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