There Is No Noise in a Covid-19 Emergency Room

Somehow I expected a pandemic to be louder

Ambulances lined up outside NYU Langone Health hospital on April 23, 2020. Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images

Somehow I expected a pandemic to be louder. Explosions, screaming, sirens — dramatic sounds to let everyone know that Something. Bad. Is. Happening.

But this pandemic is silent.

The streets of New York are eerily quiet. I hear the sounds of birds chirping as I…