Does anyone know if there is a clear procedure that they have been given as to what to do if their condition deteriorates? Are people being told what constitutes severe symptoms and what they should do about it.
I am asking because, it seems from my reading on the Chinese outbreak, that people were being monitored at home (where possible) and they apparently were also going to hospital for certain treatments as outpatients (maybe experimental or blind trials?)
www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/02/565592/what-it-feels-have-covid-19-coronavirus - I know this is just one story but I have read a few others that also suggest people were receiving treatment. Many of them as outpatients. I know some of the treatments may not have worked but surely it worth trying things, even if that means you learn something for later on in the outbreak.
This also ties in with what , the visiting team from the WHO wrote in their report on their recent visit (can't find the link now)- That many patients in China were visiting hospitals as outpatients for treatment. I know many people still couldn't get help or a bed but it seems like the Chinese were doing their very very best to keep trying to help the very sick.
I am not suggesting that they would necessarily work , but there are some existing antiviral treatments (HIV drugs, some anti malarial, blood plasma from recovered patients, the new antiviral remdesivir) that are being tested/used in China and other places.
I haven't heard anything about what the plans are for offering any treatments , even if they are experimental, to any patients seriously ill, particularly if ventilation is not available due to bed shortages. Or for how these treatments would be delivered and where.
It seems like here we are are being more 'fatalistic' and though I am willing (hoping) to be convinced otherwise.