How Doctors on the Front Lines Are Confronting the Uncertainties of COVID-19

'The group of friends talked about how best to manage a disease that five months ago had never been seen in a human being. So far, most of the world’s attention has been justifiably dedicated to stopping the transmission of the disease, whether by quarantines and social distancing or vaccines. But the doctors on the call needed answers to a different question: what to do when covid-19 showed up at their hospital doors. They needed to know whether it was unusual for patients to get better before they got worse, for instance (no, it seems to happen with some frequency), or whether hydroxychloroquine would exacerbate poor cardiac outcomes (possible, but not likely).'