When the first coronavirus patient was admitted to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, Andre Cooper and the rest of the team were terrified. 
“Everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, how are we gonna do it?’ Everyone was nervous, everyone was on pins and needles,” said Cooper, 49, a lead transporter at the hospital. 
“When you don’t know what you’re getting into, it’s nerve-wracking, you know what I’m saying? We don’t know if we’re going to take it home or whatever it’s gonna be.” 
Cooper’s job as transporter means he has the bleak responsibility of bringing deceased patients down to the morgue. 
When there’s not enough room in the morgue, he has to pack victims into refrigerated trucks outside.  Each morning, he does the grim math and lets his boss know how much room is left. 

“These are war numbers,” said Cooper, who started at the hospital as an elevator operator when he was 19. 

Cooper recalled getting the first patient at Mount Sinai, and how they

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