This is a listing (with links where possible) of interventions for COVID.
Healthy individuals not yet exposed.
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can we prevent infection
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what can reduce healthy patients from being exposed
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are there safer times to be exposed?
- what can be done to prevent exposed patients from becoming infected?
- what can be done to prevent progression?
- what can be done to reduce infection?
- what can be done at home to prevent progression?
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can very sick patients be treated at home?
- In overwhelmed systems (such as Italy, there was a request to treat more patients at home), and while there are protocols emerging to manage patients who are not very sick at home, when there is hospital capacity it is not clear that very sick patients can be cared for safely at home without reproducing a hospital level of care.
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goals of care - are patients wishes about what they would like to have happen known and honoured?
- best initial care of patients
- rapid and safe diagnosis
- best treatments to prevent progression in patients
- best treatments for critically ill patients
- Best ventilator strategies
- Multiple patients per ventilators
- Ventilator manufacture
- Are they immune? Possibly - but might wane (we don't know the timing yet)
- Can I test if I am immune? Serological testing
- Donating serum - can your antibodies save others?