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A Doctor Warns of the ‘Biggest Risk’ We Face Right Now

Can we keep health-care workers healthy enough to provide care?
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On Tuesday, I spoke with Daniel Horn, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is leading a team preparing his institution for an influx of coronavirus patients. In our last interview, on Sunday, Horn was anxious that his broader community hadn’t yet adopted social distancing. That policy is now firmly in place, but a new set of problems is looming.

Franklin Foer: Are you carrying any new worries since we spoke on Sunday?

: At this point, there is really growing concern about the safety of health-care workers. We are already seeing clusters of health-care workers having to take time

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