Asymptomatic cases and mild cases are generally isolated at home if they meet the home-isolation conditions. If not, they will be sent to a temporary hospital for isolation and treatment. People with severe symptoms, as ...
director of the infectious diseases department at Peking University First Hospital, suggesting stratified treatment for COVID-19 patients, which means asymptomatic and mild patients can be observed and treated at home, while limited medical resources ar...
COVID-19: What You Can Do to Manage Your Symptoms at HomeAlhan K. BeydounDoPgy
Most people who become sick with COVID-19 will only experience mild illness and can recover at home. Symptoms might last a few days, and people who have the virus might feel better in about a week. Treatment is aimed at relieving symptoms and includes rest, fluid intake and pain relievers...
Treatment resulted in an 89% reduction in COVID-19-related hospitalisations, or deaths from any cause, compared to placebo, in people treated within three days of symptoms starting. You would need to treat 16 people to prevent one hospitalization or death. There were no serious adverse events...
“In time for flu season, the single test helps doctors and individuals make more informed treatment decisions given that symptoms of COVID-19 and flu are similar,” Labcorp’s chief medical officer and diagnostics president, Brian Caveney, M.D., said in a sta...
What to know about Pfizer and Merck's COVID treatment pills U.S. health regulators have authorized two pills against COVID-19 that Americans can take at home, developed by Pfizer and Merck. WASHINGTON - U.S. health regulators on Thursday authorized Merck’s COVID-19 pill, known as molnu...
COVID testing is an important part of protecting yourself and others from illness. These days, at-home tests are easy to get. Testing yourself right away when you have symptoms of COVID is a good idea. If you think you might have been exposed to COVID, but you don’t have symptoms,...
If you have symptoms and use an at-home test, a positive result is generally reliable, but it's still a good idea to connect with your health care provider to see if he or she recommends any treatment. If you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19, a PCR test can be performed ...
First, both Chinese and Western medicine worked in my treatment. On the second night at Tsing Yi facility, I started to develop COVID-19 symptoms. After making a phone call to the medical consultation hotline provided by the Hospital Authority to patients at the CIFs, I received a call bac...