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Aspirin may protect against COVID-19, Israeli research finds
Times of Israel ^ | March 10, 2021 3:20 PM | Nathan Jeffay

Posted on 03/10/2021 10:20:31 AM PST by Olog-hai

Aspirin, one of the oldest and most widely used drugs, is preventing COVID-19 infections, Israeli scientists have claimed in “exciting” findings.

In the peer-reviewed research, they found that in a sample of Israeli PCR tests, patients who take small doses of aspirin were 29 percent less likely to test positive. They cross-referenced 10,477 results with medical records covering what preventive drugs patients take.

“We were really excited to see a big reduction in the proportion of people testing positive, and this gives a promising indication that aspirin, such a well-known and inexpensive drug, may be helpful in fighting the pandemic,” Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern of Bar-Ilan University told The Times of Israel.

As well as concluding that people who take aspirin, which was developed more than 120 years ago, are less likely to be diagnosed with the virus, Frenkel-Morgenstern hit on another “important” finding: Aspirin users who are diagnosed with COVID-19 are likely to have a shorter illness — by about two days — and be less likely to suffer from aftereffects of the coronavirus, she reported. …

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: aspirin; brazilnuts; chinavirus; chinavirusinfo; chinavirustreatment; chinesevirus; covid19; israel; kungflu; wuhanvirus
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To: BobL

> they had nearly as few options back then as we have now for Coronavirus.

There are many options for this china flu.


41 posted on 03/10/2021 1:27:58 PM PST by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: matthew fuller
said, "Brazil nuts may bring cholesterol levels down"
Selenium. Tried to get my wife to take a little milk thistle but drinking a juiced weed doesn't work to well with her ha ha.
42 posted on 03/10/2021 1:37:20 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Thanks, had no idea they used that much aspirin.


43 posted on 03/10/2021 1:52:01 PM PST by zek157
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To: Olog-hai

It was tried during the Spanish flu and didn’t work.


44 posted on 03/10/2021 2:17:29 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: EinNYC

It probably is true...I do a lot of Vitamin D (which apparently is safe, because excess simply washes out).

I’m soooo sick of this nuttiness. I read that yesterday, they “discovered” that fresh air is good for you.


45 posted on 03/10/2021 2:54:16 PM PST by livius
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To: srmanuel

Fauci isn’t happy with anything positive...and neither are his Karen followers.


46 posted on 03/10/2021 2:56:00 PM PST by livius
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To: kiryandil

That’s a preventive dose mostly for heart attacks, because it thins the blood and makes “the big one” less likely.

One of the things about Covid and similar diseases is that they apparently can result in clots and thickening of the blood, so therefore anything that thins the blood is going to help.

If you’re going for surgery, make sure you tell your doctor, because too much bleeding can be the result and this can be dangerous..


47 posted on 03/10/2021 3:01:28 PM PST by livius
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To: kiryandil

Aspirin 81 (i.e., “baby aspirin”) has been part of the daily regimen of millions of Americans for years.


48 posted on 03/10/2021 3:04:18 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

I have been taking one 325 aspirin daily for years.


49 posted on 03/10/2021 3:28:35 PM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Grampa Dave

Killed my buzz.

Just kidding, good to know.

Eh maybe too much of a good thing (aspirin)?


50 posted on 03/10/2021 3:29:56 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (Republicans will get the government they deserve if they do nothing :()
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To: Olog-hai

Yeh because its the common cold. 😏


51 posted on 03/10/2021 4:23:12 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: BobL
“In the peer-reviewed research, they found that in a sample of Israeli PCR tests, patients who take small doses of aspirin were 29 percent less likely to test positive.”

In other words, people like me who do the 81mg aspirin regimen.

52 posted on 03/10/2021 7:44:24 PM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Pollard

“In other words, people like me who do the 81mg aspirin regimen.”

Agree, I also consider the 81mg size to be a ‘small dose’, which is close enough to the 75mg size mentioned in the article.


53 posted on 03/10/2021 8:21:00 PM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: CIB-173RDABN; MinuteGal

“I am taking 81mg daily”

Ditto.


54 posted on 03/10/2021 10:23:11 PM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP)
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To: srmanuel

#1. I’d rather rely on St. Joseph than St. Fauci.

My other “health” saints are “St. Chicken Soup” and “St. Matzoh Balls”. Never leave home without having some.


55 posted on 03/10/2021 11:58:39 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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