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        <title><![CDATA[Chinese virus supply shortage vexes Forest Hills clinic owner]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The novel coronavirus pandemic has been <strong>tough on small businesses</strong>, many of which, being nonessential, have had to close. But Dr. Nabil Salib’s small business — which is an essential one — is facing a special set of pandemic woes.</p><p>Salib, who <strong>owns the myDoc urgent care facility</strong> in Forest Hills, is seeing his business increase but feels inadequately supplied to face the onslaught of patients that’s sure to come.</p><p>“I consider myself a soldier in this war. I am charging into the battle with my staff,” Salib said. But he is worried about the virus overwhelming his clinic — and the entire system.</p><p>“We have been waiting for the regular surgical masks for the last three weeks,” he said. “We are also very short on coronavirus testing kits.”</p><p>Salib is particularly worried that, because his is a small business, that he will be last in line to receive the kits.</p><p>His facility, which is open 12 hours a day, has seen its number of patients roughly double over the past week.</p><p>“I used to consider 30 patients in a day a good day. Now we’re past 50 a day,” he said.</p><p>“There’s definitely a lot more respiratory patients,” he added. “People coming in with cold symptoms and cough congestion. There’s a lot of anxiety.”</p><p>Salib said he is “Lysoling” his office every hour, including every doorknob, chair or surface, preparing for an attack that could fell his patients and colleagues.&nbsp;Luckily, so far none of Salib’s patients, nor his staff of about a dozen, have tested positive for the coronavirus.</p><p>“But it is inevitable; it is only a matter of time that someone will get it,” he says.</p><p>Salib, who began his urgent facility some three years ago, is also concerned about how this virus will affect him.&nbsp;“I am thinking of isolating myself; that it might be best for my family if I go to live in a hotel,” he said.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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