A Frontline Physician Speaks Out on the Coronavirus
Daniel Horn is a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he is helping lead a team charged with planning for the influx of coronavirus patients. His hospital is one of the best in the world, with enviable resources and a world-leading assemblage of talent. Yet Horn has been carrying an acute sense of dread about the coming onslaught that his institution, and others in the area, will soon face. He wanted to talk with me after watching the residents of his upper-middle-class neighborhood continue to congregate in coffee shops and restaurants.
Franklin Foer: Have you had to fully gear up with the gown and goggles and gloves?
: I was seeing a patient for his routine annual exam last Tuesday. And my medical assistant came up to me and said, “This patient has a cough and we just received the instruction about wearing
