Posted on 04/22/2020 12:06:50 PM PDT by Meatspace
French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and frontline health workers after a study suggested smokers may be much less at risk of contracting the virus.
The study at a major Paris hospital suggests a substance in tobacco – possibly nicotine – may be stopping patients who smoke from catching Covid-19. Clinical trials of nicotine patches are awaiting the approval of the country’s health authorities.
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I'd forgotten about that!
I’m going to have an extra smoke break after reading this.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em!
...and I thought that nearly all Italians smoked cigarettes.
During the Spanish flu of 1918-19 smoking was promoted as a way to stave off the flu.
British American Tobacco, the maker of brands including Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, has said it has a potential coronavirus vaccine in development using tobacco plants.
BAT has turned the vast resources usually focused on creating products that pose health risks to millions of smokers worldwide to battling the global pandemic.
“If testing goes well, BAT is hopeful that, with the right partners and support from government agencies, between 1m and 3m doses of the vaccine could be manufactured per week, beginning in June,” the company said.
The London-listed company used the announcement to trumpet the positive aspects of its tobacco empire, saying that “new, fast-growing tobacco plant technology” put it ahead of others trying to develop a vaccine.
“Tobacco plants offer the potential for faster and safer vaccine development compared with conventional methods,” the company said.
BAT said its US biotech subsidiary, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), has moved to pre-clinical testing and that it will work on the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis.
In 2014, the tobacco firm bought KBP, which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola. BAT said its work was “potentially safer [than conventional vaccine technology], given that tobacco plants cannot host pathogens which cause human disease”.
Lol
This virus is turning 51 years of everything I know upside down. I’m feeling a little sick so I’m going to get two dozen Dunkin donuts.
“Light up grandpa”.
“Light up, grandpa”.
But if they light up grandpa, there is a 100% decrease in death by Wuhan Virus!
(Don’t give Gov. Half-Whitman any ideas.)
Finally, a cure!!
I have heard 2 times from interviews with reasearches and read one other time that cigarette smokers consistently show a lower hospitalizasion rate, and a higher recovery rate.
They all felt it was due to some anomality, but it perhaps should be looked in to in the future because it made no since to them at all.
But the facts were present that nicotine users did have better recovery rates and less likely to have a Hogg impact from the virus.
The still thought it was nothing more than a “consistent anomality”.
I thought that Chinese were heavy smokers
And italians and French too.
Maybe the smoke coats the lungs inner walls making it where the viral particles are less likely to penetrate.
the study was that if you smoked it was harder to get but if you did get it the results were worse
so perhaps this is why they are trying in the nicotine patch
I’ve seen a study that indicates that nicotine suppresses inflammatory cytokines. It mentioned that because of its addictive nature they didn’t recommend it for clinical use.
Agreed. I have wondered that.
Agreed. Smokers have a higher number of ACE2 receptors. It might just as well have to do with hemoglobin changes in smokers. Don’t know.
Interesting. Would like to read it. If you have just the title, that would be great.
There have been back-and-forth opposing studies on this for the last decade or more, regarding ACE inhibitors and ARBs, and influence on ACE2 proliferation and binding and things haven’t gotten any less confusing since the advent of Covid-19.
It appears as those nicotine hinders the virus ability to penetrate cell well and move through body, secondly the nicotine appears to act as an immune system suppressant and keeps the bad immune reactions down.
If so that it aint getting me-—I use a can a day of some of the strongest swedish snus available (imported) and get the equivalent nicotine of 8-10 packs of smokes a day.
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