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Nurse Becky Barton giving nurse Jess White some hand sanitiser as she changes her protective gear after testing a patient at a drive-through clinic for coronavirus, flu and respiratory syncytial virus at UW Medical Centre Northwest, in Seattle, Washington, on March 9, 2020.
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A Facebook post, by an intensive care unit (ICU) doctor at a hospital in Washington state, doing the rounds of the medical community starts with just a few terse bullet points that could be the opening lines of a movie script - except it is real life.
"We have 21 (patients) and 11 deaths since (Feb 28)," it says.
