COVID update by WBUR FM

COVID update by WBUR FM Boston 725 am est

doctors dont really know if they are getting better at treating
patients - but patients are younger in the 2nd wave so death rates
should be lower - (iirc they did say that they are in fact seeing
lower death rates right now - but the next couple of weeks will prove
it 1 way or the other)

Eli Lillie has been granted a Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for
their monoclonal antibody (MCA) drug - it must be given via IV

Regenron still does not have a EUA for their MCA

possibly there will be no 3rd wave if the MCAs and vaccines work well

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also - Worcester Mass hospitals are filling up - elective surgeries
might have to be cancelled over the next couple of weeks

Rhode Island might have to reopen a field hospital

out West - ? Kansas ? - hospitals are running short of healthy staff