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Read about how the Department of Medicine is responding to the outbreak of the coronavirus respiratory illness COVID-19. See related COVID-19 publications.

Lingsheng Liz

Drs. Li and Dzeng Publish Opinion Piece in SF Chronicle

Lingsheng Li, MD and Elizabeth Dzeng, MD wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "Health care workers’ plea: You can save more lives than we can". The article is based on qualitative interviews conducted of volunteer clinicians in the New York City initial COVID-19 surge to emphasize that healthcare workers and the healthcare system are struggling with the volumes of COVID-19 patients and that public health efforts must be the frontline of the pandemic response.