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Collected Item: “Covid Time: Letters from Brooklyn March-May 2020.”

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Covid Time: Letters from Brooklyn March-May 2020.

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These are weekly emails I wrote to my brother Gil in Brewer, Maine and sister Barbara in Naperville, IL during the height of the 2020 pandemic lockdown, to describe to them our experiences. I am also enclosing a photo of my daughter, Olivia -- a screenshot from a Good Morning America broadcast showing her wheeling a patient into the emergency department at Maimonides Hospital.

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Bruce Cory

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Park Slope, Park Slope Volunteer Ambulance Corps, CHiPS

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2020-03

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