Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19: Not Novel but Necessary

摘要

A remarkable aspect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the intensity of the search for novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools. This has rightly been driven by the recognition that COVID-19 is a novel disease, with a multitude of clinical manifestations and some unexpected respiratory phenotypes [ ]. The overwhelming number of severely ill patients with COVID-19 pneumonia has generated a lot of information. Data has poured out of country after country as the wave of the pandemic passed over them, but unfortunately so far very few practically implementable solutions to the many problems of COVID-19 have emerged from the pool.