Fasten your seat belt. Covid19 is going to explode in the US from now through the new year.

The worst of all, i am hearing a lot of anecdotes of primary-care physicians in smaller cities/rural areas managing covid symptoms as if it is flu.
Very little thoughts being put into anti-inflammatory and anticoagulant.

When its-just-flu bros get treated by its-just-flu physicians,
That's what I call a shitshow.

Death lags inflections by 4-6 weeks. Right now is not the time to be complacent.
A lot of lab resources and personalized care are needed to navigate the 2nd-3rd week of covid (hyperinflammatory and hyper-coagulation phase). Just imagine that big post Thanksgiving and post Christmas flux of elderly patients rushing the hospitals at the same time
What kind of quality of care should one expect?

Its not like we have hundreds of thousands of REGN-COV2 to be dispensed in every city.

As a result, most elderly patients will have to go through the natural progression from the viral phase to hyper-inflammation/hyper-coagulation
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