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Canadian hospitals using new therapies to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients
COVID-19 patients has come a long way since Canada treated its first patient in hospital in January.“All the things that we were doing were merely supporting the failing lungs through the use of oxygen or ventilators,” said Dr. Daniel Niven, an intensive care physician and an assistant professor at the University of Calgary.More than six months later and thanks to a flurry of international research, some new therapies have emerged.