One Sunday last month, Dr. Dara Kass reported to an emergency room in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. It was Dr. Kass’s first day on coronavirus duty.
“Usually, the standard is to intubate and do CPR and do all those things,” said Dr. Angela Mills, chief of emergency medical services at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian.
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the dynamics of the virus within people it has infected and the need to buy medical researchers time to develop treatments.
Radiation biophysics professor David Brenner said his team discovered that continuous low doses of far-ultraviolet C light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues.
