“Whole system in crisis,” I wrote that day. With a team of nine reporters, we quickly put together an article that placed Elmhurst as the epicenter of the crisis in the city. A first version of the Elmhurst story quickly caught national attention, and a final version would end up on the front page the next day. For many, the crisis at Elmhurst was the event that truly announced the virus’s arrival. At one point, we decided that all of our articles about the virus needed to carry the tag “NYVIRUS” to distinguish them from the countless other virus articles in The Times.

Source: New York Times December 29, 2020 10:00 UTC