Medical Xpress March 10, 2025
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 health professionals 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...