New York firefighter rocks national anthem to honour health care workers

Louis DeRosa played the anthem with an electric guitar outside New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital to honour health care workers.

VIdeo source: New York City Fire Department

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LOUIS DEROSA PLAYING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WITH AN ELECTRIC GUITAR WHILE STANDING ON A FIRETRUCK / HOSPITAL STORY: New York firefighter Louis DeRosa played the U.S. national anthem with an electric guitar outside the New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital on Friday (April 24) to honour health care workers the frontline of the coronavirus epidemic.

A crowd of firefighters stood alongside him with their hands across their hearts in support.

The number of known infections in the United States topped 970,000 and deaths to COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the virus, surpassed 55,000, according to a Reuters tally by Monday (April 27).

(Production: Mariana Sandoval, Eleanor Whalley)