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Dr. Omid Hamid sharing on twitter findings from Italy Covid-19 Acute Respiratory Disease treatment success
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Dr. Omid Hamid sharing on twitter findings from Italy Covid-19 Acute Respiratory Disease treatment success

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    • March 13, 2020 at 5:47 pm
    ed williams
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      I will give you a couple of links, first one to Dr. Omid Hamid twitter account if you are interested or for those who are older and have underlying health issues. He has posted a couple of interesting facts, one on Ct scans and how Covid -19 images are unique reported by MT. Sinai doctor and a second post from Italy. Dr. Paolo A Ascierto an Oncologist and is helping to treat Covid -19 patients with severe lung issues that are on respirators. They have used a CAR-T drug for cytokine storm reactions called ‘Tocilizumab’ successfully on 3 out of 6 patients that were on respirators and they are expanding the number of patients that they are attempting to save with the use of Tocilizumab. I thought it might be important for this information to be shared with the forum as the #’s of cases of Covid-19 keep going up in the US and Canada and sharing possible treatment options for those with lung issue might become important in the near future. https://twitter.com/OmidHamidMD https://twitter.com/PAscierto
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