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Jul 27, 2021 9:40 PM ET
Ten drugs have been cleared or recommended in the U.S. for use. Two of those later had their authorizations rescinded after they failed to work. The government recently paused shipments of a third because it wasn’t effective against new variants. The best medicines for early treatment are cumbersome to administer, and drugs for those in the hospital can only do so much for patients who are already severely ill.
“We’re really limited, to be honest,” says Daniel Griffin, chief of infectious disease at healthcare provider network ProHealth New York. “We do not have any dramatic treatments.”
Is it COVID or the flu? New combo tests can find out
By Roxanne Khamsi New York Times,Updated May 11, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
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A person was tested for COVID at a site in Randolph. New tests can detect not only the coronavirus, but two types of influenza and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
In January, a man in his 60s with heart disease and diabetes went to a South Dakota hospital with a cough and fever, worried he had COVID. A nurse swabbed the inside of his nose, and the sample went into a small device resembling an inkjet-printer cartridge, which was then placed into a machine about the size of a printer.