correspondent helen maupin next looks at an especially tough year for a city dubbed the epicenter of the epicenter of the covert crisis new york. they call it the big apple and in 2020 that apple got a giant one minute and that worm is known as cove it when a national emergency was 1st declared in the city back in march many panicked. stores soon had empty shelves. the hospital soon had capacity and emergency tents were set up in central park. there was a shortage of protective equipment like masks and hand sanitizer health care workers took to the streets to protest their troll you wouldn't ask old old boy. so if you want to talk about the row. it's part of that i mean if you send over if you said so if you said to us it's really it's been tough it's been one of the hardest moments in my life it's been really challenging and we were burnt out we're we come in every day and are not getting support from our managers are you know our government is telling us we can wear a simple bandana you don't have many noted that in circumstances like this we had local officials blaming everyone bu