Text Only

How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

We knew it would happen. The number of covid patients in the hospital has increased, several in critical care. The critical care doctors are asking for different treatments, all experimental, but more or less a desperate grasp at anything that might save a life. There is more data now than there was during the first surge, however, it is somewhat daunting to provide medication for a patient that you just have no idea if it will help or not. There are no absolutes with this. I guess this is what it was like with the plague, yellow fever, influenza, smallpox, polio, AIDS. Eventually, there is a treatment or a cure. But the toll until then is, unfortunately, unmerciful.