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A Case of Coronavirus Being Cured
Here’s how doctors cured the coronavirus in one case.
The first patient in the United States with coronavirus was a 35-year old male who had visited family in Wuhan, China. He returned to the United States on January 15th, 2020. After suffering from cough and flu-like symptoms for four days, he checked himself into an urgent care clinic in Washington State.
The doctors examined him and took a chest x-ray which looked normal. They ran a barrage of tests for different flu viruses and then told him to go home and keep himself in quarantine. Before sending him home, they took a swab to test for 2019-nCoV, the current coronavirus that has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
This is not the bland coronavirus that can be killed with a bottle of antiseptic; this is the novel coronavirus virus that has turned Wuhan, a city of 11 million people into a ghost town. Just imagine if they had to quarantine a city larger than the size of New York City or Los Angeles.
The next day, the results came back positive. He had the Wuhan strain, 2019-nCoV, of coronavirus. Teams in protective white suits rushed into action. He was immediately transported to a secure medical facility at Providence Regional Medical Center. He was placed in a secure…
