‘We’re Simply Going to Hope for the Best and Plan for the Worst’

An interview with San Francisco General Hospital Chief of Emergency Medicine

Dana G Smith
Elemental
Published in
7 min readMar 25, 2020

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Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for coronavirus (COVID-19) in set-up tents to triage possible COVID-19.
Photo: Misha Friedman/Getty Images

EElemental spoke with Christopher Colwell, MD, chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, to get an inside perspective on what doctors are experiencing on the ground with the novel coronavirus

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Dana G Smith
Elemental

Health and science writer • PhD in 🧠 • Words in Scientific American, STAT, The Atlantic, The Guardian • Award-winning Covid-19 coverage for Elemental