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As of April 2020 trials were investigating whether existing medications could be used effectively against the body's immune reaction to SARS-CoV-2 infection. [44] [45] As of May 2020 several antiviral drugs were under investigation for COVID-19, though none had been shown to be clearly effective on mortality in published randomized controlled ...
Medicines such as Paxlovid were hailed as an important way to help reduce the risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19. A new study explores why many vulnerable patients didn't get them.
A World Health Organization infographic that states that hydroxychloroquine does not prevent illness or death from COVID-19. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are anti-malarial medications also used against some auto-immune diseases. [1] Chloroquine, along with hydroxychloroquine, was an early experimental treatment for COVID-19. [2]
UVA researchers discover cause of long COVID inside lung tissues. Arthritis drugs may be future treatment.
The trial intends to rapidly assess thousands of COVID-19 infected people for the potential efficacy of existing antiviral and anti-inflammatory agents not yet evaluated specifically for COVID-19 illness, a process called "repurposing" or "repositioning" an already-approved drug for a different disease.
“It’s unlikely that we will ever get back to normal without a combination of one or more good vaccines and one or more good treatments,” says H. Dirk Sostman, MD, president of the Houston ...
In March 2020, then US President Donald Trump promoted the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two related anti-malarial drugs, for treating COVID-19. The FDA later clarified that it has not approved any therapeutics or drugs to treat COVID-19, but that studies were underway to see if chloroquine could be effective in treatment of COVID-19.
Fresh studies give more information about what treatments do or don’t work for COVID-19, with high-quality methods that give reliable results. New studies clarify what drugs help, hurt for COVID ...