Summary: When pleas for help went out across the US for medical professionals to assist the city hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, like nearly 100-thousand of his peers, Ohio surgeon Dr. Ray Gagliardi answered the call. Working at a Bronx hospital ICU at the epicenter of the pandemic, he describes the myriad of ways the deadly disease attacks the body, making it much more than just a respiratory illness. Covid-19 is like nothing he and his colleagues with decades of medical expertise have ever seen.
