From ‘hot zone’ to firestorm: US Covid medics draw on overseas experience

WASHINGTON, D.C.: They have seen war and toured the world’s “hot zones” tackling the kind of biological hazards that can threaten civilizations. But for these returned exiles, the United States coronavirus outbreak has in some ways been more painful.

From New York and North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest, healthcare workers are making use of a skill set you can only master working with killer pathogens, sometimes in hostile terrain.