[music] [miguel] tonight, new york state says it's the canary in the coal mine. once-bustling city streets have become eerily quiet, while lines outside hospitals stretch around the block. i had never seen anything like it. and i've covered wars. just the incessant number of patients who kept coming in. [mola] at elmhurst hospital, the epicenter of the crisis, ambulances flood in. but there are only a few beds left for new patients. [dr. smith] we were thinking at the time we would have one patient show up at a time, and we would see the patient, and we would recognize that there was a risk that they might have covid, and we can whisk them into an isolation room. but probably the first week of march, we started to realize that we just had,