Doctors Turn to Social Media to Develop Covid-19 Treatments in Real Time

  • Social-media medical chats, podcasts fill information void
  • Facebook group helped surface procedural breakthrough
A Covid-19 patient is treated by doctors in Rome, Italy, on March 21.Photographer: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
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