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Photo of Texas doctor comforting elderly virus patient goes viral – The Straits Times
WASHINGTON • Dr Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly…
WASHINGTON Dr Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly man in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU).
His comforting embrace of the white-haired man on Thanksgiving Day last Thursday was captured by a photographer for Getty Images and has gone viral around the world.
Dr Varon, chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Centre in Houston, told CNN he was entering the Covid-19 ICU when he saw the…
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