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Doctor gambles on clot-busting drug to save virus patients

by AP Medical Writer
| April 11, 2020 6:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman was dying. New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital was about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr. Hooman Poor took a gamble.

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