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The patient is a 70-year-old gentleman who presents to the ED complaining of productive cough with yellow sputum over the past 2-3 days gradually getting worse associated with shortness of breath and some subjective fevers aggravated on exertion with no definitely relieving factors. The patient is known to be Losartan and Simvastatin. There is a question of a diabetes history. The patient presents with no white count, afebrile. The chest x-ray report is not available at the time of this dictation. However, the patient is described as being in some mild respiratory distress with wheezing over the entire lung fields. The patient is started on respiratory treatments, as well as intravenous is in the ED and placed acutely inpatient in the

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