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Covid-19 isn’t a partisan illness

IN OUR current dystopia, we are growing resigned to the strange and terrible headlines that so often greet us upon awakening. But the news that US president Donald Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus came as a surprise to me, although of course it should not have.

If I have learned anything from the dozens of Covid-19 patients that I have cared for in the past months, it is that all of us are vulnerable to this virus, regardless of our political affiliations or personal beliefs.

In the

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