How COVID-19 Will Help Denver Doctors Revolutionize Health Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned collaborations in the Denver medical community that could help usher in a new golden age of medicine. Spencer Campbell •
As the medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Denver Health, Dr. Ivor Douglas knows better than most how devastating a toll COVID-19 has taken. “We’ve lost 400,000 people, which is as many Americans as were lost in the Second World War,” he says. (The number topped 520,000 in early March.) “And we’ve done it in a year.”
At the same time, Douglas understands that the unwelcome arrival of the novel coronavirus presents an opportunity to advance health care at an unprecedented rate. “Absolutely it’s going to have long-term effects on human health and scientific discovery,” Douglas says. He believes such rapid progress will occur because, well, he’s seen it happen.