SARS-CoV-2: Tiny Coronavirus, Big Problems
The call came on Sunday morning, Jan. 19, 2020, and Chas DeBolt, MPH, answered it. She had to: as a senior epidemiologist for the Washington Department of Health, in Seattle, DeBolt was on call, over the holiday weekend. She listened as a clinician described a 35-year-old patient who thought he had a fever and definitely had a mild cough. X-rays didn’t reveal anything suspicious, but the clinician heard rattling sounds—known as rhonchi—when the patient breathed. His