A wonderful thing has happened at Suburban Community Hospital in Norristown. Doctors in the emergency department can now go several days without seeing a patient who tests positive for COVID-19.“It’s refreshing,” said Richard Lucas, chair of the hospital’s department of emergency medicine. “… It feels like the first spring day after a long winter.” He can remember when Suburban Community was .
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Ready or not, the patients were coming. This time last year, physicians around the world prepared, most for the first time in their careers, to treat a new disease over and over and over again.
“There was a terrible sense of foreboding, like in a movie when the minor key music starts playing,” says Robert Arntfield, a critical care physician at Western University in London, Canada.
In Wuhan, China, the doctors who first encountered the pandemic coronavirus raced to share surprising symptoms and possible treatments with far-flung colleagues.
In Tokyo, ill cruise ship patrons from the