Lessons Learned During a Pandemic

It has been a year of the unknowns for hospitals across the country because of Covid-19, and doctors and nurses have been working around the clock to find the best way to patients with the virus.

Intro roll vo in monitor it has been a year of the unknowns for hospitals across the country because of covid 19..

Doctors and nurses have been working around the clock to find the best way to patients with the virus..

But most importantly but most importantly prevent curve the outbreak..

Wcbi's bobby martinez talks with winston medical center today about lessons learned from covid and more... joey, although we have seen covid-19 cases steadily decrease here in the state..

This doesn't mean the virus is close to being gone... as doctors and scientists continue to learn more about this virus each day... "there's still a lot to learn about corona virus."

It has been an educational year for doctors across the country..., including winston medical center's dr. dustin gentry.

Sot - dr. dustin gentry - winston medical center - louisville "the amount of research when it first came out that was available to the general public and physicians, could probably be put on one screen of - computer back in january.

But that knowledge base has grown exponentially since then."

And one major factor in the fight against covid?

Technology... "the technology that we are using now to detect and evaluate coronavirus patients, it's not new technology, but it's new technology that's been re-purposed and tailored to help us understand coronavirus.

We can swab for a lot of different viruses.

But until recently we weren't able to swab for coronavirus or this particular strain."

Gentry says another tool that has helped treat covid patients..

Came from a local industry in town... "so this is a filtration system that we were kind enough to have donated by taylor machine works.

They designed it and built it and they got some filters there.

Its a double filter that we replace after each patient.

The principle is it keeps the air movement towards the patient and protects the other people in the room.

Then it goes up to the ceiling where there's another collection system there."

Dr. gentry also tells me that the medical center hasn't had a covid patient in about a week...