Tag: Remdesivir

  • Physicians recall emotional first wave of novel coronavirus pandemic

    Physicians recall emotional first wave of novel coronavirus pandemic

    In the initial weeks of the novel coronavirus pandemic, healthcare professionals were scrambling to take care of their patients as best they could. The evolving COVID-19 virus with no known initial treatment left them “physically and emotionally” exhausted. Newspaper Media Group’s The Criterion Sentinel interviewed a group of female physicians, who Amie Thornton, president of…

  • Opinion: My mother’s recovery from COVID-19

    Opinion: My mother’s recovery from COVID-19

    In early April, my 74-year-old mother, a high-risk patient, contracted COVID-19 while in an assisted living facility in Pennsylvania. She was successfully treated in a hospital outside of Philadelphia with a blend of treatments including oxygen, chloroquine (treatment for malaria), antibiotics and Tylenol. Because of the attentive healthcare workers and their responsiveness, she was not…