Camilla Rothe | |
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| Born | (1974-09-20)September 20, 1974 |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | COVID-19 inGermany |
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| Fields | Physician andTropical medicine specialist |
Camilla Rothe (born 20 September 1974 inHeidelberg) is a Germanphysician andtropical medicine specialist. She diagnosed the first confirmed case ofCOVID-19 inGermany, and her scientific work helped confirm that the virus could be transmitted asymptomatically.[1]Time named her one of the 100 most influential people of the year in 2020,[2] and her discovery has been credited with saving countless lives.
Camilla Rothe grew up inHeidelberg, where she attended the Kurfürst Friedrich Gymnasium and graduated at the top of her class.[3] She studied medicine from 1994 to 2001 inFreiburg andBerlin. She worked as an assistant doctor at theCharité inBerlin, where she graduated as a specialist in internal medicine in 2008. In the same year she completed her doctorate. From 2009 to 2013 she worked at Queen Elizabeth Central HospitalBlantyre, in the south ofMalawi. On her return, she continued to specialize in tropical medicine at theBernhard Nocht Institute inHamburg. From there she moved to theLMU Klinikum in Munich.[4]
On 27 January 2020, Rothe diagnosed the first confirmed case ofCOVID-19 in Germany.[5] It was evident that the infection had come from a Chinese traveler who visited Germany without noticing any symptoms of the disease. Rothe and Michael Hölscher published this discovery on 30 January inThe New England Journal of Medicine. Her published report was initially met with disbelief and denial.[6] Thus began a two-month scientific dispute about when the disease can be transmitted from person to person, which ended with the confirmation of their findings.[7]
In 2020,Time named her one of the100 most influential people of the year. Professor of molecular medicineEric Topol wrote that "her discovery has saved countless lives".[8][9]
She had just discovered Germany's first case of the new coronavirus.
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