Prognosis
Overwhelmed Chinese Hospitals Turn Away Patients Without Virus
- Those with illnesses unrelated to the virus left in limbo
- Growing number take to social media with pleas for help
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Liu Zi’ao was awaiting surgery in a Wuhan hospital to treat the tumor pressing on his spinal cord when, suddenly, he was told to leave. The novel coronavirus had plunged the central Chinese city’s health-care system into crisis, and all resources were being diverted to contain it.