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The coronavirus is shaping a generation of incoming doctors, as their residency training inside U.S. hospitals brings them face to face with a mystifying disease and frequent death.

After a brutal attack in Kabul, activists in Afghanistan write: “Our people are targeted and killed on a daily basis. Afghan women are calling for an end to it.”

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Daniella Concha, who is headed to Presbyterian Hospital in New York City to begin her medical residency.

A young medical resident learns new ways to reach and comfort his ill hospital patients — despite protective barriers that keep them far apart. He starts by turning down the noise.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gabrielle Mayer, who graduated from medical school early to help out with the coronavirus patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York City a month ago, about her work.

Jeff Mohlstock from New Jersey has contracted the coronavirus and spent nearly two weeks in the hospital. He filmed his routine, offering a rare glimpse into the inside of a COVID-19 isolation unit.

Representatives from a number of states said the list provided to them for coronavirus testing contained labs that they already knew about, or ones that weren’t approved for the testing.

Increasing evidence suggests people who smoke are more likely to become severely ill and die from COVID-19 than nonsmokers. Some people are using that as inspiration to quit.

NPR’s global health correspondent answers listener questions about asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus.

Dr. Elisabeth Poorman, a general internist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, answers listener questions about caring for or being immunocompromised patients themselves.