Varon claims the treatment cocktail has kept the death rate of patients at UMCC about 6 percent over the course of the pandemic. With more than 1.3 million confirmed cases and over 23,000 covid-19 deaths, cities such as El Paso are seeing their hospitals overwhelmed and their medical staff overworked. At the end of September, the UMCC covid-19 unit had three patients. “It hurts.”Over the months, Varon said he has treated dozens of covid-19 patients who, no matter how ill they are, refuse to acknowledge the virus is real. As the patient had virtually no chances of survival when he arrived at the hospital, Varon admits it was a long shot.

Source: Washington Post December 12, 2020 12:00 UTC