Seven weeks ago a Navy hospital ship pulled into the Port of Los Angeles to provide relief to the city amid fears it was about to become the next epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic after New York City. But Los Angeles so far hasn't been overrun with virus cases, and on Friday the massive USNS Mercy left after treating just 77 patients.
Health care has taken a big hit from the coronavirus pandemic, losing more than 1.4 million jobs in April. Despite being resilient to prior recessions, experts expect the sector to structurally change, and that we should not expect a robust recovery.
Two weeks after the federal government allowed hospitalized coronavirus patients to receive an experimental drug that provided only modest benefits, scientists say it increasingly appears the best treatment will be a cocktail of medicines similar to those used for other deadly infectious diseases, from tuberculosis to AIDS.
As chief of staff and chief of critical care services at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Dr. Joseph Varon and his small team of nurses and medical student volunteers have treated COVID-19 patients with surprising success.