Posted on 09/03/2021 7:52:10 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
A drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis has been found to improve survival of hospitalized Covid-19 patients. The discovery comes from a study of over 1,500 Covid-19 patients in 12 countries and is being hailed as a significant breakthrough for treatment options for people who are severely ill with Covid-19.
Early on in the pandemic in February 2020, baricitinib was identified as a promising drug to treat Covid-19 by a company using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to identify potential treatments for diseases. The drug, normally used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, was thought to have possible antivirus properties, but also known to be a strong inhibitor of inflammation. The researchers hoped that these anti-inflammatory properties would reduce the multi-organ damage often sustained by severely ill Covid-19 patients.
“Hospitalized patients with the SARS-CoV-2 infection (which causes Covid-19), often develop an intense hyperinflammatory state that can lead to dysfunction of multiple organs, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock and death,” said E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, Grant Liddle Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the leaders of the study. “Despite treatment advances with remdesivir, dexamethasone and tocilizumab, reducing mortality among hospitalized patients remains a crucial unmet need,” added Ely.
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“This could be significant for the severely ill patients in ICU.”
Yeah, for ONE in nine! When they find something for 5 of 10, call me.
And you put your knowledge on dazzling display every day. I am sorry that you choose not to look around and learn. But keep engaging in your group think. Works well for those who don’t have to be bothered to seriously consider the issues.
oh come on. Anyone who can google knows more than our years of post graduate education and experience. Not to mention the fact we have dedicated our careers to killing people as fast as we can for $. Get with the program
Pretty soon Fauci will be telling people that cyanide is the cure for covid. Worst part is that knuckleheads would line up to take it.
Fauci will declare it the all new improved cyanide.
First I doubt you understand projection by the statement. ...
Sure I do. You accuse others of doing what you do all the time. Like hyping what you (and your MHA administrators?) favor and dissing that which you don’t. And falsely accusing people of attacking you while you’re insulting them.
I read and consider all the studies posted here and elsewhere including the Cochran study you posted here several weeks ago.
I took exception with your statement that HCQ and Ivr don’t work. There is plenty of solid evidence that they do. If you stated that you don’t think they work as well as the regeneron mab, I would’ve been fine with that.
I’ve seen you in action in dozens of threads where rational debate is a waste of time.
But that’s OK, I’ll just put you on “ignore.” You’re doing fine alienating 90% of the people here without my involvement.
I’ll just sit back and watch Bagster and Greybeard “debate” things with you.
Ok. Send in the clowns.
You have a “doctorate” and good for YOU!
“Ivermectin is equally as worthless and delays people from getting something that works...Wrong.
You obviously ignore volumes of data based on independent observations compiled by infectious disease MD’s all over the world.
Rebut their findings with something other than rigged studies on deathbed patients. Until then stick to things you actually know about.”
Well then...Mr./Mrs. DR.
You clearly have undergone the training, you have administered medicines/medications, monitored efficacies of your dictates, and you have healed the Chinese Wuhan Red Death ill, right?
Just checking?
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