But for Diaz, this was his moment. As an infectious diseases physician, dealing with highly infectious airborne illnesses was his business. He’d trained for years to handle Ebola, and when the first news started trickling out of Wuhan about a novel coronavirus, he knew it was only a matter of time before it might reach America.
“The only surprise here was that we would be the first to receive a patient,” he said.
So thoroughly was his hospital prepared, that two weeks previously they had staged a table-top drill that ran through caring for a patient with the new coronavirus. So when reality struck and the anonymous patient really did arrive on the evening of 20 January, Diaz and team knew exactly what to do.
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