COVID-19 in the ER

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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As the new coronavirus spreads, an ER doctor in Seattle explains how he and other front-line physicians are learning to treat patients and keep themselves safe. Plus, more than eight years after the end of the Iraq War, an Iraqi man is suing a U.S. company that ran interrogations at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:08.4	I'm Al Letson.
0:11.2	The number of Americans with COVID-19 keeps growing.
0:14.9	Dr. Nick Mark is treating more and more of them.
0:18.0	Some of these patients are very sick.
0:20.6	Their lungs can't transport enough oxygen into the bloodstream, so we have to use machines
0:25.6	and other therapies to support them.
0:28.1	In Seattle, where the first known US case appeared, but figuring out how to treat the disease
0:33.6	means doctors are improvising because it's brand new.
0:37.8	When something is new, you don't know exactly how to treat it.
0:40.8	We're doing a lot of learning.
0:43.9	Every one of these patients is teaching us more.
0:46.2	Some of the things we've learned are we've learned that they seem to respond well to certain
0:51.6	settings on the ventilator.
0:53.7	There are certain ways to ventilate them that work better than others.
0:57.3	We're also learning that there are important strategies to protect ourselves.
1:02.0	There are a lot of doctors comparing notes around the country.
1:04.8	It's almost like the crowdsourcing, the information.
1:08.2	You posted on Twitter a one-page guide to how to treat COVID-19 in the intensive care
1:12.4	unit.
1:13.6	What do doctors not know?
1:16.2	There's a lot of things we don't know.
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