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Derek Cass is an emergency medical physician in New York.

Works the weekend shift.

And she can still remember the first time she thought, maybe I need a mask.

Who do you think your first patient with COVID-19 was?

I don't know. So this is actually a really interesting question because I had taken care of a patient on February 29th.

Who I was like, this is a very weird presentation of a fever and a cough.

And I went through this thing in my mind to no travel history.

She had no risk factors.

None of those CDC criteria for who should be.

We didn't have a test at that point, but even like who you should flad.

She just didn't meet any of those.

But she stuck with you.

Yeah, I know. And she caused on me.

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