I Don’t Miss Covid

It’s been a long time since I saw a Covid patient in the ER, and I couldn’t be happier

Craig Spencer MD MPH
Elemental
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4 min readJun 10, 2021

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I’m an emergency room doctor in New York City, and I haven’t seen a Covid-19 patient in weeks. It feels great having my old job back.

In March 2020, Covid flooded our ERs. At first, it was just a dribble — one or two Covid patients per day. But within a week, the…

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Craig Spencer MD MPH
Elemental

ER doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health Professor at Brown University | A Few Other Things