PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Daniel K Goyal
AU  - Fatma Mansab
AU  - Amir Iqbal
AU  - Sohail Bhatti
TI  - Early intervention likely improves mortality in COVID-19 infection
AID  - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0214
DP  - 2020 May 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 248--250
VI  - 20
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/3/248.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/3/248.full
SO  - Clin Med2020 May 01; 20
AB  - While some risk factors have been identified, the reasons for the disparities in disease progression with COVID-19 are unclear, with some patients developing progressive and severe disease while in others the course is benign. Given this sense of randomness, and in the absence of a definitive treatment, medical professionals can feel helpless. It is useful to remember how much can be done to affect the trajectory of illness, even without a ‘magic bullet’. With evidence emerging that late presentation is directly associated with increased mortality, we make the case for increased vigilance in the community and earlier intervention.