Health officials in New York State are dusting off a century-old treatment, used during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, to provide a measure of relief to the sickest coronavirus patients, Business Insider reports. The treatment is not a cure, however, but it may help with some of the patients’ symptoms.
A century ago, the Spanish Flu, as it was colloquially called, tore across the world, killing tens of millions in the process. And though the disease came and went without a cure being developed, doctors at the time did have some tools, however limited, that they could use to ease the suffering of at least some patients.
Now, health researchers are reaching into the same tool bag used a century ago to treat patients sickened by COVID-19.
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