UW Health doctor reflects on treating first Wisconsin COVID-19 patient – WKOW

MADISON (WKOW) -- One year ago, Wisconsin's first coronavirus case was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The patient was treated at UW Hospital in Madison.

Dr. Louis Scrattish was on duty in the emergency department that day.

He told WISN-TV about his concern for the patient, the other 30 patients in the ER and the medical team.

"I remember that the charge nurse had gone up to me and said that they had a patient that had just checked in whom had just traveled from China ---- and was coming in with symptoms consistent with possible COVID," Dr. Scrattish said. "There was a lot we did not know about the coronavirus at that time, and how sick it could make people. So I think there certainly was some fear there."

The patient came in days before the case of COVID-19 was confirmed. It took some time to get the test results back because the test had to go all the way to the CDC in Atlanta.

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