An Australian nurse working in one of the United States' coronavirus hotspots is urging Australians to continue to adhere to social-distancing measures to avoid the horrors she is witnessing in the US.
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She said a particularly terrifying aspect of the disease was that when patients needed to be intubated — a tube put down their throat to help them breathe — they were still conscious and talking. The world is no longer measuring the worst-case scenario against Wuhan. Now America — a nation used to being a global leader — has been brought to its knees, writes David Lipson.
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