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Medical Category: Infectious Disease

COVID-19: Triple Antiviral Therapy & IL-1 Inhibition

Background: Current management of COVID-19 focuses on supportive care as there are yet to be robust, data driven treatments. To date, there has barely been a glimmer of hope based on published evidence, as most studies are either poor quality …

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Infectious Disease

Steroids in Septic Shock via George Willis, MD

“You’re in the emergency department, you have a patient who EMS has brought in from a nursing home…who’s excited? Right, nobody is. And they are brought in for a chief complaint of altered mental status. So they’re concerned about sepsis. …

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Infectious Disease

COVID-19 Cardiovascular Literature Update

There continues to be a slew of publications coming out on a near daily basis in regard to COVID-19.  Some publications will deserve their own posts and others can really be summarized in one or two paragraphs.  In this post …

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CardiovascularInfectious Disease

COVID-19: Neurologic Manifestations

The Novel Coronavirus 2019, was first reported on in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.  The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 and on March 11th, 2020, the outbreak was declared a global …

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Infectious DiseaseNeurology

COVID-19: Two More Trials Just Published on Remdesivir

Background: Currently, there are no approved medications for the treatment of COVID-19, but,  there are many investigational agents that have shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.  Unfortunately in vitro studies do not always extrapolate to clinical care  In vitro …

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Infectious Disease

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