why is the US at only 24K recovered? Is this a reporting issue or is there something else
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First experience with it. Patient with COVID-19 cytokine storm- typical ARDS high support vent. Fever, all typical inflammatory numbers climbing. Toci (IL-6 inhibitor) at 4mg/kg (to try to preserve drug - normal 8mg/kg dose) given. Next day. All inflammatory markers markedly lower. Patient self extubated and has remained off the vent with O2 support. Promising. Pure anecdote but thought I’d share.
“why is the US at only 24K recovered? Is this a reporting issue or is there something else”
Somewhat a reporting issue, but this disease takes so long to resolve that recoveries will occur slowly over weeks and even months. There are still 70-80 folks from the Diamond Princess that have not yet recovered.
And the standards for “recovered” are pretty subjective. Kicked out of the hospital might be a more accurate description. Plus, in SK some 90 “recovered” folks have relapsed or been reinfected. Were they recovered and got reinfected, or did the virus go dormant for a while? Both seem to be possible.