THREAD: The @AP fanned out across New York City on Monday, following 10 residents as they try to protect themselves in a city under siege by the coronavirus. Here are their stories. http://apne.ws/RSuh8I5
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“You do your job ... you find what you can do and you get them to the hospital,” said paramedic Travis Kessel. “But it’s the volume and the volume of these critical and dead patients that we’ve never seen before.”http://apne.ws/6nNItLU
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New York has endured punishing trials in recent decades - terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001, flooding and power failures after Superstorm Sandy. But there’s been nothing like this.
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“I feel like God wants me to be alive right now. Maybe for this you were born,” said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum.http://apne.ws/mrdZKRe
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The coronavirus all but shut New York down, claiming lives from the Bronx to the Battery and beyond.
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“I’m here, and I want to be here. I have one family at home and this is my second family,” said concierge Joe DeLuca “I love the people here, and I want to help the families as much as I can while still being safe.”http://apne.ws/wiMiqVS
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Funeral directors in New York are being squeezed on one side by inundated hospitals trying to offload bodies, and on the other by the fact that cemeteries and crematoriums are booked for a week at least, sometimes two.
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“Right now, money is not worth it. It’s not worth it. I would give up my job any day for like a normal, normie job,” said funeral director Jesus Pujols “I’d much rather be quarantined in my house right now.”http://apne.ws/MpbJy4C
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Carla Brown’s Charles A. Walburg Multiservice Organization was delivering about 700 meals per day to seniors in New York until about two weeks ago. That total is now above 900.
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“No one has said, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to get sick. It’s like, ’How are we going to get this done? We need to feed our seniors,'” said Meals-on-wheels executive Carla Brown.http://apne.ws/Ejl2pgM
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“Funeral homes guys, they usually come in too a lot. They're busy, too, unfortunately,” said Bodega owner Alex Batista.http://apne.ws/aWIX9Rp
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Before the pandemic, America’s biggest, loudest city often lived up to its own hype. Now the hush, whether at midnight or midday, is broken mostly by the wail of ambulances.
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“I feel like I have an obligation to take those hospital workers from point A to point B,” said taxi driver Nicolae Hent.http://apne.ws/S1wnTsv
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Broadway lights went dark last month as the virus spread, an unprecedented closure for an industry that grossed $1.8 billion last season.
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“Literally to be back on that stage and to do what I do in front of an audience again, I’ll be putting 110 percent of myself there," said Broadway actor E. Clayton Cornelioushttp://apne.ws/Fh4JGVz
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See their stories and more at http://APNews.com/TheFightforNewYork …http://apne.ws/S1HOAPv
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