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Hundreds of Miles From Home, Nurses Fight Coronavirus on New York's Front Lines [nytimes.com]
By Jenny Gross, The New York Times, April 28, 2020 Each night at dusk, in an otherwise desolate Times Square, hundreds of nurses in blue scrubs gather to board buses that take them to hospitals across New York City. Of the thousands of nurses who have come from other states to shore up New York’s hospitals, more than 4,000 are staying in Midtown Manhattan. During the day, many rest at their hotels, amid darkened Broadway marquees, quiet streets and boarded up shops. At night, they face...