Bucks County’s weekly COVID update from Dr. Scott Levy held plenty of good news. The current caseload at Doylestown Hospital, where he is Chief Medical Officer, is now “dramatically lower,” a status also true for percentages of the county, state, and nation.

In that good news context, Dr. Levy looked back at the outbreak’s notable particulars.

One of the aspects of Coronavirus that made it so vexing was its quick evolution.

Clinicians treating cancer or heart disease have voluminous information to source. COVID came about so viciously and so rapidly, there was a “very short period of previous knowledge” about it, Dr. Levy noted.

Further, the knowledge base changed dramatically and speedily as the disease morphed through variants.

Also, Dr. Levy explained, “The disease was geographically different. What was going on in one community was very different from what was going on in a different community on the other side of the planet, the country, and often even the state.

“So what was right for Bucks County may not have been right for New York or Miami — and certainly not right for Hong Kong.”

Best-practice treatments, then, became a matter of what was “based on evidence at the time.”

He says that the storehouse of information now assembled about COVID-19 will inform further outbreaks, should they come, more quickly and effectively.

More from Dr. Scott Levy is on the Doylestown Hospital Facebook page.