There are now fewer COVID-19 patients in St. Louis area hospitals than any point since July Justina Coronel
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This week, COVID-19 hospitalization numbers reached the lowest point in our area since the end of June.
According to the St. Louis Pandemic Task Force, hospitalizations on Tuesday were at 148, down from 154 Monday. This is the lowest since June 30, 2020.
Admissions on Monday were 16, down from 25 on Sunday, and the lowest since July 6.
For Florissant resident, Marcia Key, she knows firsthand how powerful it is that hospitalization numbers in the St. Louis area are down.
This past year, she lost 27 friends to COVID-19 and she almost lost her life.
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Praveen Chenna, MD, (right) and a colleague discuss a patient s X-ray at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Chenna is a Washington University pulmonologist who spent the past year caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients in the ICU.
A year ago this week, the World Health Organization made the alarming assessment that COVID-19 had infected people across the globe and escalated into a pandemic. Health-care workers and scientists whose work in any way touched on the highly infectious disease were called to stretch themselves like never before.
A year later, more than 2.6 million people in the world, more than 527,000 in the United States, more than 8,700 in Missouri and more than 20,000 in Illinois have died due to COVID-19. The exhausting battle to squelch the virus and address its many ramifications continues, but efforts to successfully treat the many symptoms of the disease it spurs and to develop vaccines capable of returning life to some degree of normal have been remarka
Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), talked online Thursday, Jan. 7, with the Washington University Medical Campus community about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic. The talk, part of Washington University Department of Medicine’s virtual, weekly Grand Rounds, also was available online to the public.
Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spoke Thursday, Jan. 7, about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of Washington University Department of Medicine’s virtual, weekly Grand Rounds.
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William G. Powderly, MD, discusses COVID-19 cases with staff in the intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Powderly says that although vaccine development has been rapid, the search for therapies for patients infected with the novel coronavirus has been less successful.
A new episode of our podcast, “Show Me the Science,” has been posted. At present, these podcast episodes are highlighting research and patient care on the Washington University Medical Campus as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccine development has been rapid and successful. Two vaccines that report more than 90% efficacy against the virus already are in use, with approval of more vaccines expected in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the development of treatments for those infected with the virus has been slower. Only one drug, the steroid dexamethasone, has been proven to reduce the risk of death in those hospitalized with COVID-19. In this episode, we�