The first person in the US to catch the coronavirus was successfully treated in Washington state and returned home late last week.
Dr. George Diaz, a section chief for infectious diseases at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett joined Arthel Neville on FOX News on Sunday morning to discuss the successful treatment of the centers coronavirus patient.
Dr. George Diaz: About a week into his course he got worse developed pneumonia. At that point given the reports we had gotten out of China At that point we elected to give him the experimental Remdesivir, antiviral medication. And within 24 hours he improved significantly. This was quite encouraging and he improved and thereafter remained without fever and felt much better. Over the next few days he improved to where we thought he could be discharged at home under the care of the local health district.
Arthel Neville: And you said you used, I believe an experimental anti-viral medication, that you gave this patient. Can you apply this treatment to ALL people infected with the coronavirus or does it depend on the stage of their infection?
Dr. George Diaz: Yes, at this point the CDC has been working with the authorities in China and have recently opened a large clinical trial of Chinese patients looking at those with severe disease as well as those with mild to moderate disease. We are very much looking forward to the trials.
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Horse posted on 2020-02-11 09:46:21 Reply Private Reply
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Poor Samoa. Its so remote it doesn't seem to have an immunized population. When a measles epidemic breaks out in the US, no one dies; but during a recent outbreak in Samoa 83 people died.
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Sure looks like it Horse.
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When I type CONgress, my machine changes it to Congress. So... ;)
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