Surge: An ICU Nurse on the Front Lines of Covid's Deadliest Days in NYC

8. Last Rites

The nurse's personal audio journal for her therapist, recorded at her breaking point.

7. Failure

How can COVID-negative patients stay negative inside a hospital overrun with Coronavirus cases? Systemic problems in the hospital setting are nearly impossible to overcome at the height of the crisis, and the implications are deadly.

6. Gasping for Air

The day of New York City's highest COVID death toll has arrived. In the ICU, patients inadvertently pull-out breathing tubes, alarms go unnoticed, and hastily trained medical staff continue their desperate battle against a disease they never signed up to fight.

5. Saying Goodbye

Cheers of support. Intimate whispers of farewell. An otherwise stoic nurse is moved to the emotional brink.

4. On Fire

She works at one of the top-tier hospitals in the country, but because of the strains Covid-19 is putting on the system, the hospital staff is losing hope and all that’s left is a sense of duty.