November 23, 2020

Data Show Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients Are Surviving At Higher Rates, But Surge In Cases Could Roll Back Gains-STAT

Patients hospitalized with Covid-19 are surviving at higher rates than in the early days of the pandemic, gains that data and interviews with experts suggest are driven by a more refined understanding of the disease and how to treat it — and, crucially, less strain on hospitals that had been inundated at times. Other factors have contributed to the improved outcomes: Steroids that help save some lives are being used more widely, and people infected after the initial surge were, as a whole, younger and arrived at the hospital earlier in the course of the disease. STAT, 11/23/2020