The 2nd wave of COVID-19 related Mucormycosis is already here while we have still not quite reached the peak.

This time patients are presenting earlier and some of them even while still being I'll with covid-19 (2nd week of illness)
This wave, I've already seen 5 in the last week. 4/5 were still positive for virus.
Patient profile:
Younger patients, more aggressive disease. I do think that covid itself is responsible for disease not just immuno-supression as a 2/5 patients were not even diabetic in 20s.
Mucor is not a novel fungus. It is all around us.

I do blame poly-pharmacy for some of this. Humans are destined to go extinct due to emergence of super-bacteria and super fungi

Mucormycosis is very tough disease to treat. I'm already feeling the dread for the coming months. This time it is going to be far worse than 1st wave.

I don't remember feeling so helpless in the face of clinical challenges. This is heartbreaking on so many levels.

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Why indeed?

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Qinghaosu became the antimalarial drug Artemisinin through evidence collected by YouYou Tu. It doesn't mean Chinese medicine is scientific.
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