I live a few blocks from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. It’s the epicenter of the epicenter of the pandemic in America. Refrigerator trucks are outside.
Testing lines snake around the block. Ambulance sirens persistently fill the air. My home sits directly under the biggest bubble in The New York Times info-map of infection rates.
The news reported that when Trump saw pictures of Elmhurst Hospital’s emergency room, he changed his tune and thought, “Maybe there is a public health problem.” We