Coronavirus News: NYC hospital releases its 1000th COVID-19 patient

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Friday, May 1, 2020
UES hospital releases 1000th COVID-19 patient.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- It was an inspiring milestone Thursday for medical workers at a hospital in Manhattan.

Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side discharged its one thousandth COVID-19 patient.

The 61-year-old man was in the hospital for ten days and doing poorly until he started receiving plasma treatments just a few days ago.

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