STAT January 15, 2021
Last month as my colleagues and I took care of Mrs. Smith (not her real name), a middle-aged woman hospitalized with Covid-19, every day felt like an education in learned helplessness.
No matter what our team did, her infection kept getting worse. At first she was breathing just room air. Then she needed extra oxygen delivered by a small tube sitting below her nostrils. After that she needed more oxygen delivered through a facemask.
We gave her the drug remdesivir, but she didn’t get better. We gave her high-dose steroids, but she didn’t get better. We even gave her the antibody cocktail that President Trump and many of his high-profile allies received, but she didn’t get better.
Mrs. Smith’s fever...
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