Covid-19: Why Should Health Care Workers be Protected? (Updated)

Update: 3/8/2020 Since publishing this article, I came upon this correspondence from the New England Journal of Medicine titled, SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients.   The writers of the letter studied the number of viruses from asymptomatic patients using nasal and throat swabs. They found:  The viral load that was detected…