//Doctors and nurses are using virtual reality to learn skills to treat coronavirus patients

Doctors and nurses are using virtual reality to learn skills to treat coronavirus patients

As hospitals worldwide face severe shortages of health professionals, people are being called off the sidelines to help COVID-19 patients — even those with little to no experience in treating infectious diseases.To train thousands of doctors and nurses with expertise in other areas such as knee surgery or neurology — and retired practitioners reentering the medical field — some hospitals are implementing an unlikely method: