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The puzzling questions of the coronavirus: A doctor addresses 6 questions that are stumping physicians

  • Written by William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
The typically crowded Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, now nearly desolate in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Getty Images / Victor J. Blue

Editor’s Note: As researchers try to find treatments and create a vaccine for COVID-19, doctors and others on the front lines continue to find perplexing symptoms. And the disease itself has...

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