Improved treatment could decrease Covid deaths in ICU by 30%

International studies and personal lessons learned in the first wave of the coronavirus in the Netherlands mean that people who now end up hospitalized with a Covid-19 infection get improved treatment to those who were hospitalized in March and April. Doctors now have three medicines that can help their patients, and have adjusted treatments in other ways too. Doctors' associations hope that this will reduce the number of Covid-19 patients who need intensive care by around 30 percent, and reduce the number of deaths in ICU by around 30 percent, NOS reports.Submitted by Janene Pieters on Friday, 21 August 2020 - 11:50 https://nltimes.nl/2020/08/21/improved-treatment-decrease-covid-deaths-icu-30