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Just anecdotally, since I am close with a doctor, they stopped rushing to vent and now they treat with Remdesivir and steroids. Looking at the graphs for my sta
by tehjoker 6y ago
Just anecdotally, since I am close with a doctor, they stopped rushing to vent and now they treat with Remdesivir and steroids. Looking at the graphs for my state, we have about half the critical care rate at similar or greater detected cases than the spring, so better treatment seems to be a 2xish improvement for hospitalized patients?
- lazyasciiart 6y agoThey vent at the same point as before, based on breathing. But they were telling people not to come in until they were having difficulty breathing, because they didn't have any early treatment or any space. Having access to remdesivir/steroids would mean people should come in for treatment early, but it only helps if given very early. But if infection numbers were large enough then we probably wouldn't manage to treat everyone early enough, so it would cut the rate of severe cases by an unknown amount.
- manwe150 6y agoIs Remdesivir still in wide use? I know it was given emergency approval in the US, but I thought wider trials were now thought to show a lack of demonstrable results.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoGood point, I haven't kept up with it and was assuming it works to focus on one argument. I'm not a medical researcher and the evidence seems pretty ambiguous at this point. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30911-7/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...