We're Not Out of the Pandemic Woods Yet

Opinion | We're Not Out of the Pandemic Woods Yet The end of the COVID emergency phase may be nearing, but we must remain vigilant Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, and Michael Daignault, MD medpagetoday

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We need better tracking of COVID-19 in hospitals. We previously proposed delineating hospitalizations by "for COVID" rather than "with COVID," but disease progression is dynamic during a hospital admission. A better metric, as is being looked at in Massachusetts, is to track use of the steroid dexamethasone as a surrogate for hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 illness. Another possibility is to directly track which patients require oxygen...