Medical Xpress March 10, 2025
Michael Merschel

In the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was full of questions.

Dr. Jeffrey Hsu recalls the fear of the unknown as he and other confronted a virus they didn’t understand, much less know how to treat.

“It was quite scary,” said Hsu, a cardiologist and an assistant professor-in-residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We were bracing ourselves for the worst.”

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the questions have waned, at least among patients, said Dr. Won Lee, medical director of Boston Medical Center’s Home Care Program.

“I think a lot of people are fatigued by the news and the headlines that...

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