Covid variant VUI – 202012/01.
“Here you come again
Just when I’ve begun to get myself together
You waltz right in the door, just like you’ve done before
And wrap my heart ‘round your little finger”
It has been more than a few months since I posted here of early studies that hinted Indomethacin might be effective against SARS-CoV2. (feels like years ago). Well, there has finally been a trial, though in India where they like cheap drugs and can’t afford monoclonal antibodies and other fancy $1000/dose medicines.
The results were:
“It was observed that patients treated with Indomethacin had a reduction in the number of days to become afebrile, reduction in cough and myalgia by half compared to the paracetamol set. Only one out of 72 patients in the Indomethacin arm of the first group required supplementary oxygen while 28 of the 72 patients required supplementary oxygen in the paracetamol arm. No one in the second group deteriorated enough to require mechanical ventilation. There was no evidence of adverse reaction to indomethacin or deterioration of renal or liver function”.
I actually have indo in my medicine cabinet, so this is good news. It’s easy to get and cheap, like Ivermectin.