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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The Olympics' pandemic playbook is put to the test | The Atlanta Voice

When I first told my medical colleagues that I would be traveling 14 hours to Tokyo, they looked at me with a bit of surprise, then hesitantly told me simply to 'be safe.' It is the same reaction I have often received when jetting off to cover a natural disaster, like the earthquake in Haiti, or a conflict, like the […]

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