bAn urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency roombbrb bbrWhen former iNew York Timesi journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. iOn a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are, i Koeppel asked. Meyer's grave reply--100--was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. pIn need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he'd seen and whom he'd treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. iEvery Minute Is a Day itakes us into a hospital ravaged by Cov