Rheumatologists ‘cannot be passive observers’ in combating ever-changing COVID-19

SAN DIEGO — The SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to evolve, sometimes on a daily basis, thus making consensus difficult to achieve in terms of how to continue fighting against COVID-19 and its ever-increasing sequelae, said a speaker here.
However, addressing attendees at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West, Leonard Calabrese, DO, argued that rheumatologists are nonetheless uniquely positioned to continue that fight.
“The only thing that there is universal agreement on is that this is not going away,” he said. “Virtually everyone on the planet will get this disease at

SAN DIEGO — The SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to evolve, sometimes on a daily basis, thus making consensus difficult to achieve in terms of how to continue fighting against COVID-19 and its ever-increasing sequelae, said a speaker here.
However, addressing attendees at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West, Leonard Calabrese, DO, argued that rheumatologists are nonetheless uniquely positioned to continue that fight.
“The only thing that there is universal agreement on is that this is not going away,” he said. “Virtually everyone on the planet will get this disease at