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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Science, 25 May 2020 - Study tells ‘remarkable story’ about COVID-19’s deadly rampage through a South African hospital

Title:
Study tells ‘remarkable story’ about COVID-19’s deadly rampage through a South African hospital

Author:
Linda Nordling

Published:
Science, 25 May 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/study-tells-remarkable-story-about-covid-19-s-deadly-rampage-through-south-african

From the article:
"On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s, a private hospital in Durban, South Africa. Eight weeks later, 39 patients and 80 staff linked to the hospital had been infected, and 15 patients had died—fully half the death toll in KwaZulu-Natal province at that time."