What US doctors wish they had known before the coronavirus outbreak

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'What I did not recognise was the severity of illness that would be seen in patients who are older and the rapidity with which this illness would spread through elderly populations.' coronavirus

"What I did not recognise was the severity of illness that would be seen in patients who are older and the rapidity with which this illness would spread through elderly populations."

Dr Anju Goel, an internal medicine specialist in California, said that had practitioners understood how severely the respiratory disease Covid-19 would affect the elderly, more could have been done to protect them from exposure and get them early treatment.

 

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