Special Report: As world approaches 10 million coronavirus cases, doctors see hope in new treatments

[LiberalArkie]

JUNE 26, 2020 / 6:12 AM

(Reuters) - Dr. Gopi Patel recalls how powerless she felt when New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital overflowed with COVID-19 patients in March.

Guidance on how to treat the disease was scant, and medical studies were being performed so hastily they couldn’t always be trusted.

“You felt very helpless,” said Patel, an infectious disease doctor at the hospital. “I’m standing in front of a patient, watching them struggle to breathe. What can I give them?”

While there is still no simple answer to that question, a lot has changed in the six months since an entirely new coronavirus began sweeping the globe.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lessons-special-re/special-report-as-world-approaches-10-million-coronavirus-cases-doctors-see-hope-in-new-treatments-idUSKBN23X1I5

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend.

[Laelth]

2. Frustrating article.

The doctor says she’s better prepared for a second wave. She says she has better strategies for treatment ... but she doesn’t tell us what those strategies ARE. I found that frustrating.

Personally, and I am no doctor, but if I had a patient who was struggling to breathe, I would give that patient a massive bronchodilator—Adderal or straight methamphetamine, if need be. That will help anyone breathe, and it will do so quickly, but this article tells us nothing about what the medical community has discovered to be effective treatments for the novel coronavirus. It just says, “We got this.” We aren’t going to tell you how.

-Laelth