EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus doctor reveals his patients in intensive care are as young as 40 and do NOT have underlying health conditions – contradicting official advice
Dr Sam Fink is treating two patients stricken with COVID-19 and is friends with a third patient in Tarzana, CA
All three men are in intensive care, including one who is in his forties and has no preexisting conditions
Dr Fink made headlines earlier this week when he urged schools to close down to help slow the spread of coronavirus
The doctor warned that the US needs to immediately make drastic changes in order to avoid becoming like Italy, which has more than 10,000 cases
As of Wednesday morning, more than 1,000 people in the US have tested positive to coronavirus, and there have been 32 deaths
By SANDRA CLARK
DAILYMAIL.COM
11 March 2020
A California doctor says three men he knows struck down with coronavirus are all in intensive care and are as young as 40 – contradicting claims that the disease only impacts the elderly.
Dr Sam Fink, who is based in the affluent town of Tarzana, began treating two of the men following their return home from a ski trip to Northern Italy late last month. Dr. Fink is friends with a third patient from the trip, who is also now in ICU battling against the virus.
‘I have never seen anything like this,’ Dr Fink told DailyMail.com on Tuesday.
These people who are in the hospital are generally young. Forty, fifty, sixty. These are not elderly people. There are three people who are now in the ICU.
‘It is my understanding that one has underlying medical issues, but the other two sure don’t. Not having any underlying medical issues does not protect you,’ he warned.
Dr Fink hit headlines earlier this week after he took to Facebook to urge all schools to close down amidst the coronavirus outbreak. The post was subsequently shared tens of thousands of times.
The medic says he took to social media to share his concern about the alarming rate that the killer virus is spreading. He believes that closing down schools could help drastically slow the spread of the disease.
His concern comes as:
US coronavirus cases surged past 1,000 with 274 new infections in 24 hours
A nursing home patient in her 90s became the 31st death in the nation and a 69-year-old horse trainer became New Jersey’s first fatality
Google told all 100,000 of its US staff to work from home to prevent the spread of the virus
Washington’s governor was poised to announce a ban on gatherings of 250 people or more in Seattle
New York think-tank Council on Foreign Relations canceled a conference on coronavirus because of the virus
A team of US and Chinese researchers estimated that there could already be more than 10,000 cases of coronavirus in America, the majority of them undetected
Trump’s former pandemic adviser Tom Bossert warned ‘we are 10 days from hospitals getting creamed’
Dr. Marty Makary, of Johns Hopkins University, warned the situation in the US could easily get as bad as China
The Treasury said it could delay tax payments beyond the April 15 deadline to help businesses cope
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