THREAD: With no playbook to follow, doctors in the early days of the pandemic relied on YouTube videos describing autopsy findings and X-rays swapped on social media to treat COVID-19 patients. #RacingforaRemedyhttp://apne.ws/nFfQGBy
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During Stephen Donelson’s struggle with COVID-19, his doctors went through a huge learning curve to treat him. Like many colleagues around the world, sharing information proved to be crucial during the pandemic’s early days.http://apne.ws/zGRiFrX
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“Everyone has been kind of grasping for anything that might work.” The desperate search for COVID-19 treatments has led to a slew of low-quality studies, delaying the ability to find out which drugs really help.
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There are hundreds of coronaviruses, but just a handful are known to infect people. This new virus has captivated scientists’ attention unlike any in decades.
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As COVID-19 emerged, health officials believed it would be like other coronaviruses and that spread without symptoms would be extremely rare. They were wrong.
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