Are doctors trying too many experimental COVID-19 treatments?
Faced with an onslaught of seriously ill patients, doctors want to save lives. When those patients have an unknown disease, as in this pandemic, that urge translates into trying countless new therapies to find effective treatments for the complications of this disease. (Pixabay/)The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world in many ways by surprise. Without a rulebook in hand, front line doctors have been forced to make tough and quick decisions on how to treat their patients. This has led to an unprecedented number of experimental treatments and trials to combat the novel virus. Now, a few months into this ongoing pandemic, some physicians and researchers worry the medical community may be trying too many unproven or experimental treatments as they try to keep COVID-19 patients alive. A number of letters published in various scientific journals this past month have highlighted this concern. Taken together, they call for reliance on accepted...