It would be impossible to overstate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which shattered norms and upended lives around the globe. It certainly created shock waves within neurosurgical departments, perhaps nowhere more than here in New York City, which was struck early and hard by the first surge of cases in March and April 2020.
The story of that first surge, and its devastating fallout, is chronicled in our April 2021 cover package in the journal World Neurosurgery. In...