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# NBCNEWS.COM | Dr. Albert Chan | Telehealth during COVID-19

NBC News featured Sutter Health's Dr. Albert Chan discussing how telehealth and outdoor testing tents helped hospitals manage the early coronavirus outbreak.

March 9, 2020 by Sutter Health

At the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, patients who are worried that they may have the coronavirus no longer enter the hospital itself. Instead, they are treated just outside in big tents, where physicians donning protective gear test them and a special air filter whisks germs away.

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