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“If people saw this, they would stay home.”

Doctors invited @NickKristof inside two hard-hit New York hospitals to observe first-hand the fight against the coronavirus. nyti.ms/3aWLd2p
The best vantage to understand Covid-19 is not the White House press conferences, writes @NickKristof, but the anguish of patients who are feverish, frightened and all alone nyti.ms/3aWLd2p
"What is most impressive in the hospitals is not the ventilators or CT scanners," @NickKristof says. "It’s the compassion and courage of health workers, and the intervention that struck me the most was decidedly low-tech — the hand-holding." nyti.ms/3aWLd2p
“I could see the fear in his eyes,” Ms. Chavez told @NickKristof about the patient whose hand she held. nyti.ms/3aWLd2p
“It’s really hard as an emergency physician to see people suffer without their families at the bedside. It’s been a very hard time for everyone here.

“We are telling people to please stay home.” — Dr. Nicole Del Valle nyti.ms/3aWLd2p
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How much worse might the coronavirus outbreak get? @NickKristof and @StuartAThompson created a model you can adjust to see what will happen depending on how people change their behavior. nyti.ms/38L6f24
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Without interventions, the model shows 100 million infected (9.4 million at once) and about 1 million dead. nyti.ms/38L6f24
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