Pregnant and fighting Covid-19 – Netflix docu-series focuses on doctor in pandemic hotspot New York
- A special episode of Lenox Hill, a Netflix medical docu-series, follows the lives of four doctors through the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak in New York
- Dr Mirtha Macri, pregnant with her second child, reveals she’s getting only two to three hours of sleep a night, and breaks down in her car at one point
Early in a special episode of Netflix's medical documentary series Lenox Hill, Dr Mirtha Macri is beginning yet another shift in the emergency department at Lenox Health, a division of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, when she pauses hesitantly in a corridor. She asks a wandering colleague whether the empty room she's about to enter has been cleaned so she can run in and get a surgical gown.
It's early March.
“The way I feel right now is that I trained my whole life for this,” Macri tells the camera. “It's not very often that a pandemic happens during your career in emergency medicine … I feel like it's my duty, I feel a little obliged to be here. But at the same time, you know, I don't want to be exposed because of [my] pregnancy.”
Lenox Hill, available for streaming since early June, follows the lives of four doctors – including Macri – as they navigate the tightrope of their work and professional lives.