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Opinion: If Covid-19 will peak in June, teaching hospitals should consider delaying the start of new medical residents

The #Covid19 epidemic is forcing everyone to make hard choices. Pushing off the start date for new medical residents might be one such choice.

Some projections place the peak of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. . If it is still going strong at the end of June, it will collide with the start of a new year in teaching hospitals across the country: July 1 is traditionally the day that new doctors who had been medical students just a month or two earlier start work

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