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From an ER physician: COVID is no hoax and no joke; an experience to be missed

RBC | Former Pioneers Medical Center emergency room physician Kurt Papenfus, MD, was recently released to his home in Cheyenne Wells to continue recuperating after a week’s stay in a Denver hospital while battling COVID-19. He was interviewed by friend and part-time Meeker resident James Magid by telephone last week, who shared Papenfus’ thoughts with the HT.

“This COVID SARS2 virus is the meanest, nastiest, hunter-killer virus ever. It is everywhere and nowhere: it is…