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Myron Cohen<\/a>, MD, began his career fighting HIV in the early 1980s, and he’s been battling the epidemic around the world ever since. But he has never worked as hard to generate new therapies and save lives as he has during the Covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Desperation or urgency can push us away from the scientific method,” Cohen said in a CNN Health<\/a> report. “It is better to not throw stuff against the wall.”<\/div>\n
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But that’s what happened during the pandemic, as doctors desperate to save patients any way they could as they filled hospital beds, intensive care units and emergency rooms.<\/div>\n
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Cohen, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, recognizes the need to return to what works.<\/div>\n
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Read the CNN Health report.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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