P. Dileep Kumar

Jan 20, 2025 | kevinmd.com | P. Dileep Kumar

Jun 24, 2024 | kevinmd.com | P. Dileep Kumar |Richard Watson |G. Richard Olds |Nick Richwagen

Half a dozen brick steps from the side road led directly to the emergency room (ER). The hospital building resembled a thin strip of warehouse in the middle of a remote small town. A couple of ill patients occupied the beds in the tiny ER. A room beyond the ER served as the intensive care unit (ICU), where the ER doctors frequently checked on patients. The ICU’s location was a matter of convenience since only a single doctor was available to manage the entire hospital at any given time.

Feb 28, 2024 | kevinmd.com | P. Dileep Kumar |Horacio Romero Castillo |Molly Walker |Clarissa C. Ren

Do masks prevent COVID-19 infections? You might be thinking that it is a bit late to ponder these questions. But better late than never! As shown in the following graph provided by the CDC, COVID is here to stay with us, at least for the time being. Even though nothing compared to the 140,000 hospitalizations per week during the early 2022 wave, there were still about 40,000 weekly hospitalizations a couple of weeks back.