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What happens when the doctors treating coronavirus get it?

The coronavirus has infected more than one hundred thousand people around the world. But what's it like working on the front line in a hospital treating suspected cases?

Dr James Phillips is an emergency physician at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC. He thinks it's inevitable that many doctors in the US will get the virus and that the medical profession should have contingency plans for when the doctors are off work sick.

(Photo: An ambulance crew member in Moscow. Credit: Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS via Getty Images)

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