“When news of a respiratory illness spreading through China first broke, Dr. S. Andrew Josephson — chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco — didn’t anticipate that his department would be involved. “When I first heard about it … I said, ‘This isn’t going to involve my day job,’” Josephson, who is also the editor in chief of JAMA Neurology, tells Yahoo Life.
But within a few weeks of COVID-19 arriving in the United States, patients began showing neurological symptoms, and Josephson realized he was wrong. “It turns out, I care for these patients every day,” he says.”