_pandemic
As the Covid-19 virus rapidly spreads across the globe, civil society has shut down in an attempt to "flatten the curve." In the United States, New York City has become ground-zero for the contagion. Under orders from Government officials, business has ground to a virtual halt while stock markets tank, health-care systems buckle and mankind "social distances."
A deceased person is transported into a refrigerated truck at the Brooklyn Health Center in Brooklyn, New York on April 07, 2020.
The “Naked Cowboy” wears a surgical mask in Times Square, New York, New York on March 17, 2020.
A homeless man watches a televised Presidential address on a TV in Times Square, New York, New York on March 17, 2020.
Signage warns travelers in the New York Port Authority building in New York, New York on March 17, 2020.
A man wears a surgical mask at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, New York, New York on March 18, 2020.
A desolate Grand Central Terminal in New York, New York on March 23, 2020.
Empty seats on the 4,5,6 subway line in New York, New York on March 17, 2020.
A man is admitted to the Brooklyn Health Center hospital in Brooklyn, New York on April 04, 2020.
A potted flower sits in front of a closed-to-the-public St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, New York on Easter Sunday, April 07, 2020.
Carrying "human remains," a mortician's van leaves Brooklyn Health Center hospital in Brooklyn, New York on April 01, 2020. Bodies continue to pile up, 1,300 as of today, in NYC.
A woman waves an American flag while cheering the arrival of the USNS Comfort hospital ship in Battery Park, New York, New York on March 30, 2020.
A husband briefly visits his health-care professional wife at Mount Sinai- Beth Israel in Manhattan, New York on April 04, 2020.
The Navy’s Blue Angles and Air Force’s Thunderbirds fly over New York City in tribute to health care workers as taken from East River State Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York on April 28, 2020.
A man wearing a mask jogs in Brooklyn, New York on April 07, 2020.
Signage indicates closure of a restaurant in New York, New York on March 18, 2020.
A food delivery driver passes a boarded-up business in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York on April 29, 2020. Many business face an uncertain future.
Under the watchful eye of the NYPD, socially-distanced customers wait in line at a Whole Foods grocery store in New York, New York on March 20, 2020.
Desolate streets adjacent to Radio City Music Hall on 6th Avenue in Manhattan, New York on April 05, 2020.
A desolate 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York on April 05, 2020.
A masked woman cycles along a desolate Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York on April 07, 2020.
Empty streets on Broadway, New York, New York on March 18, 2020.
Protestors attend a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York on June 06, 2020. Thousands have filled the streets despite the social-distancing mandates.
Smoke rises from the crematorium at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York on April 19, 2020. With so many deaths, cemeteries and crematoria are working extended hours.