The Mistakes New York Made

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🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A New York Times investigation found that surviving the coronavirus in New York had a lot to do with which hospital a person went to. Our investigative reporter Brian M. Rosenthal pulls back the curtain on inequality and the pandemic in the city. Guest: Brian M. Rosenthal, an investigative reporter on the Metro Desk of The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: At the peak of New York’s pandemic, patients at some community hospitals were three times more likely to die than were patients at medical centers in the wealthiest parts of the city.The story of a $52 million temporary care facility in New York illustrates the missteps made at every level of government in the race to create more hospital capacity.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a daily.
0:09.2	Today, a Times investigation finds that surviving the coronavirus in New York had a lot to do
0:17.5	with which hospital a person went to. My colleague, investigative reporter Brian Rosenthal,
0:24.8	on any quality and the pandemic, it's Monday, July 27th.
0:34.9	Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing accomplishment.
0:41.4	Strategy, plan of action all along. Step one, flatten the curve, step two,
0:46.8	increase hospital capacity. That's what this is all about, not overwhelming the hospital capacity,
0:58.0	and at the same time, increasing the hospital capacity that we have.
1:03.3	So if it does exceed those numbers, which it will in most probability, that we have the additional
1:10.2	capacity to deal with it. When you have been part of a team investigating how the coronavirus
1:24.1	was handled in New York City, and I'm curious why you undertook this project. My sense is that
1:30.7	New York has done a fairly solid job flattening the curve over the past few months. So what was your
1:36.9	aim? So New York was clearly the first big hotspot for the coronavirus in the United States.
1:46.1	And yes, we did succeed in flattening the curve, but we also experienced a lot of tragedy
1:54.4	along the way, a lot of death and a lot of heartbreak. And now that the rest of the country is going
2:03.2	through different surges in the virus and different versions of what we went through in March and
2:10.0	April, I think it's really important to look at the experience in New York, the successes that
2:19.2	were had, but also the mistakes that were made. And if you look at what happened in hospitals
2:27.0	in New York in a real close way, you'll see that there were a lot of mistakes. And as a result,
2:34.3	people died. And where does that story start in your reporting? When the pandemic began in New
2:41.2	York, a team of us on the Metro desk really were trying to follow what was happening. And we realized
2:49.0	very quickly that there was no one story about how this was playing out in hospitals, because
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