Waiting Rooms Are Packed With Virus: Why Don’t We Learn?
8 min readNov 10, 2022
A short trip down memory’s troubled lane.
Early in 2020, with alarming news coming out of China regarding a new and super-infectious respiratory virus, I wrote an essay invoking an innovative approach to managing emergency departments during outbreaks of infectious disease. It’s extraordinary, really, to read that piece now. Sentences such as: