Doc Handal, M.D.
It is not ALL CLEAR
At present COVID-19 mortality rates is 50% to 62% for adults admitted to the ICU. The hallmark lung findings: dry cough and fever and then pneumonia is not found in everyone. COVID-19 doesn't always go completely away ad you are back to yourself! It might linger for...
Want Out?
SARS Co-2 virus is not suddenly gone!! Lockdown has been if nothing else different. No matter your housemates, children, roomies, or animals stress was inevitable. I am blogging because I feel strongly the economy should not take priority over health. In my humble and...
COVID-19 New Reveals
Recall, I mentioned in an earlier blog, certain countries were hit harder - had more cases of this virus and more deaths. Yes, cities given their population density were postulated to have more cases just on that but now think mutations! I also mentioned in a past...
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID19
And more info: still no cure & no vaccine - please do not take false security when stay-at-home rules are lifted. compassionate use of different medications has occurred. Research continues around the globe into existing pharmacological ex. Pepcid into the vein...
Pandemic Reveals – Update
A definite level of uncertainty surrounds this pandemic, will there be a new normal? a second wave? Sorry, I do not have the answers for you at this posting. but I will continue to share responsibly what is known. Update: recall a virus is RNA protein needs host DNA...