A New York moment: 

Jamison Galt is the pastor of Resurrection Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, and in late March he heard a parishioner’s dad had COVID-19. He and the church member, Jeremy Caliz, prayed and went over all the potential scenarios. Galt was frustrated that he couldn’t go to the hospital or to Caliz’s house to support him.

In March, Jerome Caliz, 62, conferred with his son and only child, Jeremy Caliz, who lived nearby in Brooklyn, about preparing for COVID-19. The father had a lifetime of training for a pandemic disaster: He had served in the military, and he was a registered nurse. He had stocked up on canned food.

The first week of May, Samaritan’s Purse began disinfecting and packing up its tents from its Central Park field hospital after a six-week deployment at the epicenter of the nation’s COVID-19 outbreak. 

IN APRIL Léa Folly-Gah, a resident supervisor at a group home for those with developmental disabilities, set the table for dinner with one of the residents. They came to a spot where another resident normally sits. Folly-Gah told him not to set a place for the absent resident, because she was in the hospital with COVID-19. 

Most professional sports are offline for now, although outliers like professional darts players and Belarus’ soccer team soldier on. Sports networks are mostly replaying old footage. 

In early April, a group of Covenant College students in Bioethics 171 met on Google Hangouts to go through a drill for how to allocate scarce medical resources after a mass casualty. Pretending to be a hospital ethics committee, they had 20 minutes to decide who of 10 patients deserved three beds in an intensive care unit. The prompt read, “The triage officer complains that he has never had to make the decision to ‘kill someone by denying them care,’ and has frantically called the committee together to decide which of the victims should be given a bed.”

ANDY BRACKBILL AND HIS WIFE, Pamela, were up late Tuesday night and into the wee hours of Wednesday. He passed the time scanning Flight Radar 24, a flight tracking app. Brackbill said he was“doing my usual clicking on certain planes/helicopters at different places around the country, just to see who they were and where they were going.”