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Why Are Young Health Care Workers Getting Coronavirus?

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Published February 25, 2020 at 11:11 AM CST

We discuss why thousands of health care workers in China seem to be bearing the brunt of the coronavirus. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

We talk to New York Times reporter Sui-Lee Wee (@suilee) about why thousands of health care workers in China, many of them young and otherwise healthy, seem to be bearing the brunt of the new coronavirus.

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This article was originally published on WBUR.org.