Caller · moment 6 of 20
What To Do If You Think You Have It
from Emergency Broadcast - Corona Call-Ins #2 · #2
3 min
Caller
John advises seeking medical help if symptomatic rather than waiting it out, describes escalating oxygen treatments up to intubation, and admits remdesivir's effectiveness is still unproven.
- Tim asks what people should do if they think they have coronavirus—go to a hospital or wait it out at home?
- His guest explains you need to go to the doctor and get medication; over-the-counter ibuprofen isn't sufficient.
- Tim asks what medications hospitals are actually giving coronavirus patients.
- Medical explanation of oxygen delivery methods used for COVID patients, from nasal cannula to intubation.
- Discussion of Remdesivir as an antiviral drug in human trials with uncertain effectiveness due to lack of data.
- Tim asks whether his guest believes coronavirus is actually worse than the media and news have portrayed it.
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