Doctor and TV presenter Alexander Myasnikov listed fatal mistakes in the treatment of COVID-19 at home, often arising from ignorance.
Myasnikov said that there are a lot of such mistakes, and often “they are not only from ignorance, because now we know a lot, but we continue to make mistakes,” Tsargrad reports.
At the same time, treatment protocols are constantly updated. So, Myasnikov cited the use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as an example - they, as the doctor noted, turned out to be ineffective.
Antiviral and immunomodulatory substances were also found to be dummies. He also stressed that now all hope is pinned on vaccination.
Another big mistake is the use of doxymethasone in the treatment of COVID-19, as well as taking blood thinning drugs and hormones - they should only be used for treatment in a hospital, and during treatment at home they can only harm a person.
“The most fatal mistake is that we do not understand that these are two diseases,” Myasnikov said.
One of them is covid, a coronavirus acute respiratory disease, as he noted. The second disease is coronavirus pneumonia. The doctor urged not to treat acute respiratory infections like pneumonia, otherwise a person's prognosis will deteriorate sharply, and the side effects of such treatment can be “simply horrific”.
"Pneumonia, severe, in hospitals is another matter," Myasnikov explained.
Earlier, the biologist suggested not discharging almost recovered patients after the "long" COVID.