So do we have a SARS patient? The chief sanitary doctor of the Amur Region, Vladimir Smirnov, has been saying for about a week that Denis Soinikov, who was hospitalized on May 4, is suffering from atypical pneumonia. Mr Smirnov... So do we have a SARS patient? G The chief sanitary doctor of the Amur Region, Vladimir Smirnov, has been saying for about a week that Denis Soinikov, who was hospitalized on May 4, is suffering from atypical pneumonia. Mr. Smirnov insists on this.