In an hour, but that wasn’t the case then.”Īs the state shut down everything from restaurants to schools, Henry Ford, which has Was it airborne? Did it live on surfaces? Now, we can get test results “There were so many things we didn’t knowĪt the time. “It definitely was a fast build,” said Brooks-Williams, senior vice president andĬEO, North Market, with Henry Ford Health. MHSA ’91, was on the front lines of a global pandemic.
Then, all of a sudden, the Detroit area had becomeĪ hot spot for a disease that had only just been named COVID-19, and Denise Brooks-Williams, It felt like everything happened at once.Īt first, the pandemic was far away.