Second Wave? Broadening of Wave 1…or Exaggerated Numbers?

Max Gomez, PhD

Dr. Max Gomez is an award-winning broadcast journalist and a medical reporter for WCBS-TV. He has received seven New York Emmy Awards, two Philadelphia Emmys, a UPI honor for Best Documentary for a report on AIDS, and an Excellence in Time of Crisis Award from New York City after September 11. He was named the American Health Foundation’s Man of the Year and was a NASA Journalist-In-Space semi-finalist in 1986.

Previously with WNBC-TV, Dr. Gomez joined the network in 1997 after serving as the medical reporter/health editor for WCBS-TV from 1994 to 1997. Prior to that, he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia and the health and science reporter/editor for WNEW-TV.

A native of Havana, Cuba, Dr. Gomez graduated cum laude from Princeton University, with a PhD from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was also an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at New York’s Rockefeller University.

You can learn more about Dr. Gomez at NewYork.CBSLocal.com/personality/dr-max-gomez. And watch his “Max Minutes” at NewYork.CBSLocal.com/tag/max-minute.

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Just as the world started to open up, the news started to report frightening numbers of new cases of the coronavirus. But what about the deaths and hospitalizations? Treatment options are increasing, and death rates declining…but you wouldn’t know it from the media.

In this edition of the Bottom Line Advocator Podcast with Sarah Hiner, Dr. Max Gomez—nine-time Emmy Award–winning medical journalist with New York’s CBS-TV—joins Bottom Line President Sarah Hiner to give important perspective on the rising numbers of COVID cases .

Specific topics covered…

Second spike vs. extension of Wave 1 (4:31 – 8:34)
Pattern of sickness is changing (8:34 – 12:35)
Monitoring the right data to understand the extent of the danger (12:35 – 16:55)
Watch the hospitalizations (16:55 – 20:28)
Can the system handle the increase? (20:28 – 22:04)
In-hospital treatments: Remdesivir, dexamethasone, blood plasma treatment (22:04 – 34:50)
Hydroxychloroquine: The latest news (34:50 – 43:02)
Zinc and viruses (43:02 – 45:00)
How accurate is testing? Nasal swab (45:00 – 48:02)
Inconsistencies in the anti-body test (48:02 – 52:22)
The two elements that increase your risk for COVID- (52:22 – 53:38)
How close is COVID to being a “treatable disease”? (53:38 –

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