Overreacting to a Serious Situation
(WorldNews Politics)

I am a practicing physician (a dermatologist). I was a medical student when HIV was discovered. As a dermatology resident, I dealt extensively with AIDS patients, because AIDS - as with most infectious diseases - often presents with skin lesions, so I’ve lived through a new infectious disease before. I remember the confusion and the unknowns that brought, and how we did some things well and other things not so well. With coronavirus I have a responsibility to my patients and staff to act, not overreact, appropriately with the best information available and adjust decisions from time to time as better information becomes available. Crises bring out the best and the worst in people. For...