If you’ve not viewed it, make sure you watch the harrowing video by Robin Stein and Caroline Kim in which Dr. Colleen Smith, an emergency room doctor, takes viewers inside Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the epicenter of the epicenter.

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The political response to the crisis in Canada and the United States has, of course, been drastically different. Partisan and regional grievances have been set aside here with leaders both federally and provincially calling on Canadians to hunker down to contain the spread of the virus. Without exception they also have consistently deferred to physicians, scientists and public health experts to inform Canada’s approach.

No Canadian leader from any party or province is echoing President Trump’s forecast of a return to normal by Easter, an assessment widely rejected by experts.

Certainly there was an unexpected delay when a scaled-down version of Parliament met to approve a variety of emergency health and economic measures. But, unlike the situation in Washington, it was resolved quickly and the dispute was over the government’s taxing and spending powers, not the need to quickly get money to Canadians and Canadian businesses while also stabilizing the financial system.