Early Treatment For COVID-19 Would Benefit Individual Patients, Reduce Burden On Health Care System, JAMA Viewpoint Says
NIH: Treatments for people with early COVID-19 infection is an urgent research focus
“COVID-19 treatments for people with early infection are needed urgently, according to a JAMA Viewpoint article by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and colleagues. Treating people early in the course of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, would speed their recovery, reduce the likelihood that they develop severe outcomes, and reduce demand on the health care system, they write…” (11/11).
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