RAS: a timely visit to a doctor will help reduce mortality from coronavirus on the air of Radio Russia said that many deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided if patients had consulted doctors on time.
According to him, if any person with signs of a respiratory infection is treated on time, it is safe and effective drugs, you can avoid a large number of hospitalizations and reduce mortality. He added that it is necessary to treat all patients with signs of a respiratory infection, regardless of the test result for COVID-19, since they often give a false negative result.
“The mortality rate from coronavirus is still low, it is about 1-1, 5 percent. And, unfortunately, the mortality that we see in Russia, to some extent depends on the fact that people expect it to pass by itself, or they wait for such a severity of the disease when they have to be hospitalized, and doctors receive serious patients ” , – he said.
Earlier Matskeplishvili called a dangerous mistake in the treatment of patients with coronavirus infection. According to him, in the overwhelming majority of cases it is possible to do without drugs that suppress the immune system, since the body of a patient with COVID-19 very rarely also catches a bacterial infection.