On October 23rd, a New York doctor named Craig Spencer was diagnosed with the virus after returning from an MSF mission in Guinea. When the news broke, Spencer’s cell phone rang off the hook as his former patients called to see if they could help. Spencer had covered a lot of ground during the week between his return and his diagnosis. He had walked the High Line in Chelsea, eaten at a popular restaurant in Greenwich Village, and gone bowling in Williamsburg. Even more terrifying to New Yorkers, he had taken an Uber and ridden the subway. A tightly packed city with millions of people had its
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