EMTs wheel a bed into the Brookdale Hospital Medical Center during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, US, Apr 1, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

REUTERS: When the coronavirus struck Sylvia LeRoy, she turned to the hospital she knew best: Brooklyn's Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center: where she has worked for seven years as a labour and delivery nurse and planned to give birth herself in just two months.