Observations about our response to COVID-19

So what have we learned? One thing that I have observed is that physicians are just as polarized about how to treat COVID-19 as politicians are polarized about the COVID-19 response. That is unfortunate because I would hope that physicians as scientists would be unbiased, read everything that we could get our hands on and make our own decisions. In my institution there was quite a difference of opinion and how to treat patients in the outpatient setting that were COVID-19 positive. Most of the time they were sent home from the emergency room with Tylenol or ibuprofen and told to follow up with their primary physician. It would appear that even fewer were started on vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc. Even fewer were start announcing the fluvoxamine which was supported in an article in the Lancet.