Dr Pierre Kory: Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients are Systematically Dying from Under-Treatment with Corticosteroids?
PART 1 - As a now renowned (infamous?) U.S pulmonary & critical care specialist with numerous co-authored publications and extensive experience treating COVID-19 in all it’s phases, almost every day of this pandemic, and sometimes multiple times a day, I am contacted by someone in my ever-widening circle of friends, family, or colleagues asking me to help a loved one who is deteriorating from COVID in the hospital. The case is invariably one of an often older (but not always) patient mired on a hospital ward or in an ICU, whose illness has progressed to the point where they require near maximal or maximal oxygen/ventilator settings and the patients and family members begin to question whether “enough is being done” or “is there more the doctors should be doing?” So they reach out.. desperate for help. The therapeutic regimen that their loved one is on is nearly identical in almost all cases, especially on the hospital wards where a generally anemic dose of a corticosteroid called