Victories celebrated early in a pandemic represent what science knows at the time. Thursday, Patricia Myles, 49, one of the first people treated in the region with the experimental drug, remdesivir, was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started.
She floated through the lobby on the throng of good wishes from the staff, greeted a grandchild born during the pandemic for the first time and said her only memory of her weeks in the hospital is what happened in the last week.