An estimated 62,344 health care professionals in America have gotten sick caring for Covid-19 patients, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
From CNN's Maggie Fox
The young man admitted to the Newton-Wellesley hospital in Massachusetts was clearly very ill -- so ill that he needed the help of a ventilator to breathe. But the first swab test for coronavirus came back negative. A second test, 24 hours later, came up negative, too. So they tried a different approach.
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