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Experimental hormone therapy may speed recovery for COVID patients

DULUTH - Every time the phone rang, it seemed to Kristine Smoley like more bad news about her husband, who contracted COVID-19 and was in a hospital intensive care unit on a ventilator because he couldn't breathe on his own.

Smoley was prepared for the worst when a nurse from Duluth's Essentia Health called with hope - albeit with risks and no solid evidence it would save her husband.

"They asked if I wanted to consider signing off on an experimental treatment for him," Smoley said. "A treatment that had never been done before."

https://www.startribune.com/hormone-boost-could-be-covid-19-key/572944532/

 

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