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Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID–19 patients as treatments improve

  • Written by Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID–19 patients as treatments improveThe discovery of effective drugs and experience treating COVID-19 gives patients a much better chance at recovery today than early on in the pandemic.AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, poolDeath rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID–19 patients as treatments improveCC BY-ND

Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for...

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