Tri-State EMS Workers Confront Growing Number Of Coronavirus Cases

YONKERS, NY - APRIL 06: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) EMT Michelle Melo hangs an IV before she and fellow medics intubated a gravely-ill patient with COVID-19 symptoms at his home on April 06, 2020 in Yonkers, New York. The man, 92, was barely breathing when they arrived, and they performed a rapid sequence intubation (RSI), on him before transporting him by ambulance to St. John's Riverside Hospital. Empress EMS employees treat and transport patients to hospitals throughout Westchester County and parts of New York City, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)