Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'The most urgent research race in living memory'
At that point it was time to turn him into his stomach -"tummy time", as the nurses call it - which often makes it easier for patients to breathe.
Hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug that President Trump said he had a good feeling about - which then led to a spate of overdoses and acute shortagesDexamethasone, a steroid, which is an old favourite in medicine when we don't quite know what's going onThis danger zone is between the 10th and 15th days, so this patient is not yet in the clear, even though he says he is feeling better.
Afterwards I asked Zulfi Karim, president of the Bradford Council of Mosques. how he thought the city's Muslim community - who make up just under a third of the population - were feeling about the pandemic and the measures taken to tackle it."Reality has hit home. I think the community leaders absolutely feel that the lockdown of mosques and suspension of gatherings was the right thing to do.
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