truePresident's Office04/08/2025 06:00:00 AMFive Years After the Apex of COVID-19: Honoring Our Legacy, Reaffirming Our MissionSUNY Downstate stood at the heart of a global crisis in early 2020 that changed the world and tested every fiber of our humanity. As the COVID-19 pandemic upended lives, devastated communities, and claimed millions of lives around the globe, University Hospital at Downstate (UHD) was designated a COVID-only hospital.Office of the PresidentPresident's Office