New York hospitals will permit people giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic to have partners present, despite a major hospital system previously instituting a ban on all visitors.
rian, one of the country’s largest hospital systems, said that for the safety of its patients and health care workers, visitors would no longer be allowed in the ho
spital. That rule extended to partners of people giving birth, which meant women and other child-bearing individuals would have to go through labor alone. This caused someat one of NewYork-Presbyterian’s 11 hospitals, and“In no hospital in New York will a woman be forced to be alone when she gives
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