Two Chinese Nurses Call for Overseas Help in Stretched Virus Wards

Two Chinese Nurses Call for Overseas Help in Stretched Virus Wards
A nurse checking a patient in an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 coronavirus patients at a hospital in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei Province, on Feb. 22, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
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BEIJING—Two Chinese nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan made an unusual global appeal for help in a letter published by a prestigious British medical journal.

“We are asking nurses and medical staff from countries around the world to come to China now, to help us in this battle,” wrote Zeng Yingchun and Zhen Yan in the appeal published on Feb. 24 on the website of The Lancet.