Benjamin So was mid-way through a 36-hour shift at a Hong Kong hospital when an elderly couple from Wuhan, China was wheeled into the isolation ward at 3 a.m. After the nurse took their vitals and nasal samples to test for the novel coronavirus, he got to work. Inside the negative pressure chamber, So, a resident in internal medicine, asked the male patient about his symptoms, listened to his chest and reviewed an x-ray scan of his lungs. Then, he did the same with the female. Around nine hours later, both tests came back positive. The 72-year-old man and 73-year-old woman became the ninth and tenth confirmed coronavirus cases in Hong Kong. “I was a little shaken when I found out,” So told TIME. After he came off shift, he went and quarantined himself. He would rather have done so at the hospital, and many doctors have been calling for on-site accommodation to enable this, but with none available So has holed up in a local hotel. He may seem overcautious to some (inclu...
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