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It's the start of the pandemic in 2020, and David Petrino is scrambling. He's the director

of Rehabilitation Innovation at the Mount Sinai health system in New York,

the city that's about to become the global COVID-19 hotspot.

It was grim.

We had a countdown for the number of days before we ran out of beds, you know,

and that was something that we were just managing with my team while we were testing out clever ways of turning bipap machines

into ventilators, building our own ventilators, building a remote patient monitoring app to track

acutely ill patients,

chasing down PPE.

David does what he can, but it's mostly distributing face masks and medications.

The reality is doctors don't know much about COVID or how to fight it.

The most they can do is try to prepare.

I was meeting people on the street who had boxes of 10, you know, in 95s.

And I was immediately rushing that off to whichever friend at whichever hospital needed it the most.

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