“We did see the first known case in Suffolk County. That was at ELI and I recall the day pretty well because I was there. We definitely were concerned that this patient was a COVID patient based on a number of factors…Those of us practicing long enough remember the HIV crisis and at the time very little was known about the disease other than it was killing people. Some of us have been through this before. There have been a number of other pandemics, none as great as this."

-Dr. Kai Sturmann,
Chair of the Stony Brook Medicine
Eastern Long Island Campus
Leadership Coordinating Council