Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis


  • World
  • Thursday, 09 Apr 2020

Christian Vigil, 26, an intensive care doctor, poses at the main entrance of the 12 de Octubre hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain, April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Medina

(Reuters) - For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil, battling on the frontline against the new coronavirus is a journey back in time to an era they can scarcely imagine.

"We feel like doctors a century ago when we didn't have antibiotics," said Vigil, who works in intensive care at Madrid's overloaded October 12 Hospital.

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