Coronavirus outbreak: doctors use robot to treat first known US patient
by Hallie Golden in Seattle from Science | The Guardian on (#4Y9WV)
American citizen in his 30s was admitted to Washington state hospital on Monday after trip to China
Doctors have been using a robot to treat the first person known to have been admitted to hospital in the US with a new strain of the coronavirus, as part of an effort to prevent the spread of the disease, which has killed at least 17 people in China and infected hundreds more.
The man in his 30s was admitted to the special pathogens unit in a hospital in Everett, Washington, on Monday. The US citizen had recently returned from a trip to central China and had been diagnosed in Seattle.
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