(Times of Israel) Ira Tolchin Immergluck - Carmi Sheffer, a doctor at the University Hospital of Padua in northern Italy, says the country is close to "flattening the curve" with some new treatments appearing to be helping some COVID-19 patients. "In the past few days, people have begun to recover, in part due to new medications," he said. In Padua, the autoimmune medicine Tocilizumab has proven effective, but can only be used once it is established that no other viruses or bacteria are present in the patients. The hospital has also seen positive results from the antiviral drug Remdesivir. 500 patients in northern Italian hospitals are receiving ventilators that use a snorkeling mask, with a part that connects it to the machine being printed by a 3D printer. He said dramatic results resulted when they had patients lie on their stomach instead of on their back while on a ventilator. "Suddenly the oxygen level in the blood jumped by hundreds of percent."
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