The COVID-19 Pandemic: A View from New York City

Abstract

This article provides a view of homeopathic clinical practice in the New York City area in the first few months of 2020 as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began to evolve in the United States. Key symptoms used to generate a short list of potentially curative remedies are given, and the pandemic syndrome is viewed as appearing in stages or as having various clinical manifestations each with its own main remedy. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is briefly described, as are the preliminary presenting signs and symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Several clinical examples are given, some with positive laboratory confirmation.

Keywords

Gelsemium - Senega - Antimonium ars. - Psorinum - pandemic - epidemic - COVID-19 - SARS-CoV-2 - reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay - Genus Epidemicus - coronavirus

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