“I will tell you we will have more,” Del Rio said. “Transmission in Healthcare settings is well known with this virus.”

A spokeswoman for Grady reiterated that the nine “does not apply solely to healthcare workers at Grady.”

Gupta is a staff neurosurgeon at Emory Clinic. Emory University staffs physicians at Grady.

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It was not immediately clear how many of the nine that Gupta spoke of were at Grady, Atlanta’s biggest safety net hospital and level 1 trauma center.

Gupta read, interspersed with comments: “Guys, this is happening. We are now seeing droves of patients being admitted with COVID-19…nine doctors now sick with 20 more expected tomorrow. The nine doctors who were sick tested positive for the coronavirus.”