Buenos Aires, Argentina - The first thing Fernando Gaitan did when

he saw the note posted inside the elevator of his building was cry. Days
later, when he received another one on his door, he felt a stabbing pain. 

 "You're going to infect us all," said the initial anonymous letter directed
at doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers on the front
line of coronavirus pandemic. "Go away." 

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The second note told Gaitan, a pharmacist in the Argentine capital, that if
anyone in the building gets sick, "it will be the last thing you do in your
life".

"I cried, because we're obviously living a very tense situation and I'm a
human being like everyone else," said Gaitan. "I honestly couldn't believe
it. Because I'm heading out to work and exposing myself." 

For weeks, Argentines have taken to their balconies every night to

applaud and cheer on healthcare workers who are putting themselves in
the line of fire to combat the novel coronavirus. But an uglier behaviour
has also taken root, with several stories of harassment and threatening of
medical professionals who are being accused of posing a risk to the
community they are seeking to help. 

It is not just doctors who are targeted, but COVID-19 patients, or those
who are suspected of carrying the disease.