Because the safety of a vaccine needs to be tested in adults first, children may not have access to a vaccine for years – possibly 2022 or later.emerges in the U.S. this fall, medical experts said patients arriving in American emergency rooms will likely have an entirely different experience than what urgently sick patients saw earlier this year -- the benefit of hard-learned lessons from the deadly disease.
Medical workers take in patients outside of a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center, May 4, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. Hospitals scrambled to scale up their supplies to meet the sudden and desperate need. At certain points nurses were asked to ration their use of critical gear – storing their one respirator mask per day in a brown paper bag.
Caregivers have also found benefits of rolling even mildly ill coronavirus patients on their stomachs, finding that using prone positioning eases the stress on fluid-filled lungs. Other medications that attracted early interest in intensive care units have been set aside in many cases. Schwartzstein told ABC News medical centers in Boston had halted the use of hydroxychloroquine.
It’s one of the few treatments showing early indications that it can help. Back in March, only a small number of facilities were able to perform convalescent plasma treatments. But in just three months, the treatment is now an option at over 2,300 hospitals across the country, according to the COVID-19 expanded access program.
"You're giving thousands or millions of antibodies, but the problem is that once you need another dose you need to bleed more people and start over again,” explained Dr. James E. Crowe, who serves as the Director of Vanderbilt Vaccine Center."Hyper immunoglobulin" treatment with standardized serum could be more effective on a mass scale.
This approach -- similar to hyper immunoglobulin therapy -- is meant to simulate or mimic the antibodies made in your own body. Still, if there was a viral surge that sent patients to the emergency room in the fall, there are indications that these drugs could be on hand, with some hope it could help halt disease progression.
I work at a hospital and you could see the number of patients was going down and as soon as the reopening started, the number of patients started to go back up.... i think the second wave has already started and will continue to rise as more openings happen covid_19
fingers crossed --and thanks to army engineer corps for the field hospitals they built & ford n other companies for making respirators !! Go American know how!!
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No second wave ABC , just fear mongers running amok
When did the first wave end?
This makes me feel so much better about people not wearing masks.
Very vital to get prepared in advance well done for that matter 🙏
This is the 1st 'real' fact to come out of American media.
cnnbrk Totally disgusting the treatment of your camera crew in Minneapolis Keep up the good work CNN. Needed now more than ever John Doherty Scotland
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