Lessons from my family's ordeal with COVID-19

1. If you can afford it, test early, ideally day 2 of fever. Every fever is COVID unless proven otherwise.
2. Isolate vulnerable family members (old, comorbid) immediately, while awaiting for test report. If negative, reverse.

(1/n) 3. Hydroxychloroquine is not a guarantee against infection. My mother, on HCQ for last 3 years got infected. It was a mild infection, though.
4. False negatives are super common, especially if you get tested after day 6-7 of fever. My brother had two false negative reports

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Thanks to all my colleagues for voting. This is an interesting question in breast oncology, and practice varies quite a bit (As you can see from the poll)
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1/6 There is interest in getting rid of anthracyclines from adjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer, due to long-term concerns of heart failure and secondary leukemia. The ABC meta-analysis seemed to concur that taxane+anthracycline (TaxAC) beats 6TC by a small margin
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