Posted on 10/28/2021 7:22:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19 in a study hunting for existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat coronavirus.
Researchers tested the pill used for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder because it was known to reduce inflammation and looked promising in smaller studies.
They've shared the results with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which publishes treatment guidelines, and they hope for a World Health Organization recommendation.
The pill, called fluvoxamine, would cost $4 for a course of COVID-19 treatment. By comparison, antibody IV treatments cost about $2,000 and Merck's experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 is about $700 per course. Some experts predict various treatments eventually will be used in combination to fight the coronavirus.
Researchers tested the antidepressant in nearly 1,500 Brazilians recently infected with coronavirus who were at risk of severe illness because of other health problems, such as diabetes. About half took the antidepressant at home for 10 days, the rest got dummy pills. They were tracked for four weeks to see who landed in the hospital or spent extended time in an emergency room when hospitals were full.
In the group that took the drug, 11% needed hospitalization or an extended ER stay, compared to 16% of those on dummy pills.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
More on this, and other COVID therapies, available here:
Just click on the name of the medicine or supplement to get the studies and their PDFs.
It may or may not be a little better than Ivermectin but IVM isn’t a drug for psych conditions so there’s zero worries about addiction, unlike an anti-depressant. IVM has less side effects too.
Be ‘strong like bull’ and go with IVM.
Well, if I had the “you know, that thing”. I would be depressed, so....
Is this additive with Ivermectin and HCQ?
I applaud their efforts but they haven't been paying any attention to politics have they?
FDA, babykillers: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. You are not a member of Congress. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
This is more snake oil. I’m sure the corporation that produces this pill will jack up the price by 1000% or more.
BTW, using the Ivermectin 3mg pills of Ivermectin, what is the dose to weight ratio?
What is important is that a bureaucrat in Fauci’s lab thinks.
Sounds a lot like Ivermectin.
Would taking a 5-HTP supplement do the same?
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