[ConservativeMind]

Zocor and Lipitor were the brand names of the two statins that actually helped people.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Red Badger]

I take atorvastatin.........But I never got the Vaxx and also take D3 and other supplements. Not even a sniffle.............

[ComputerGuy]

My wife and I have that one covered. Bofum.

[ryderann]

Zocor came really close to killing me.

[Carriage Hill]

I was on 80mg of Lipitor (atorvastatin) for 4yrs, but the excruciating hip pain was too much to bear, while walking for exercise, with my Lady Friend.

My cardiologist put me on 10mg of Crestor (rosuvastatin) and the pain’s disappeared.

After reading this article, I’m wondering if I should get back on the atorvastatin...

[CFW]

My elderly mother was taking cholesterol-reducing drugs in the latter part of her life. About a year or two before she passed away, a new cancer doctor asked why? He said at 87, what did it matter what her cholesterol levels were. She should eat what she wanted within reason and to throw away those prescriptions. He said he never recommended statins for the elderly as long as they ate reasonably healthy diets.

[Honorary Serb]

My doctors put me on low-dose atorvastatin when they thought I had heart disease.

Via several tests—it was proven that I have NO heart disease whatsoever! My cardiologist fired herself. But I still remain on low-dose atorvastatin, which keeps my lipid numbers very low.

Now I am told that that may help protect me from COVID. Good! I take vitamin D and zinc, too.

[thesearethetimes...]

Mark

[logi_cal869]

What a load of feces.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease ping - Certain medications indicate a higher likelihood of survival with covid-19
Certain statins were found to have maybe reduced mortality in Covid-19 patients (not all statins !)
Some prescribed statins were more effective than others, (shown below, and in the article)

ConservativeMind :" Zocor and Lipitor were the brand names of the two statins that actually helped people.

(From the article):" In the flurry of clinical studies being published by other scientists studying COVID-19, some found that statins seemed to reduce mortality in COVID-19 patients,
while others found no effect—but these studies did not discriminate between different types of statin drugs."

"Now, the team have confirmed that only a subset of them, including simvastatin (Zocor) and atorvastatin (Lipitor), reduce mortality risk in COVID-19 patients.
The team also demonstrated that simvastatin potently inhibited the virus
and reduced the production of inflammatory cytokines, while other statins did not."

"The researchers analyzed 2,436 drugs with NeMoCAD, and noticed that a subset of statin drugs were among those predicted to restore a COVID-19 state to a healthy state,
including simvastatin, atorvastatin, pravastatin (Pravachol), lovastatin (Altoprev), and fluvastatin (Lescol).
However, only simvastatin and atorvastatin were ranked as highly protective; the others showed a much weaker predicted effect."

"Together, the groups performed a retrospective analysis of more than 4,000 patients who were actively taking statins when they became infected with SARS-CoV-2.
The results showed that only simvastatin and atorvastatin correlated with significantly increased survival in COVID-19 patients."

(My Comment) : Keep this information in mind, "if and when" we have another viral attack
This information could determine your survival, or, whether you become another statistic.