An Update on Current Therapeutic Drugs Treating COVID-19
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32395418
In this review, we will update and summarize the most common and plausible drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. These drugs and therapeutic agents include antiviral agents (remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, lopinavir, umifenovir, favipiravir, and oseltamivir), and supporting agents (Ascorbic acid, Azithromycin, Corticosteroids, Nitric oxide, IL-6 antagonists), among others.
Therapeutic Options for COVID-19 Patients | CDC
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/...
FDA has approved one drug, remdesivir (Veklury), for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients aged 12 years and older who weigh at least 40 kg. Early effective treatment of any disease can help avert progression to more serious illness, especially for patients at high risk of disease progression and severe illness, with the additional benefit of reducing the burden on healthcare systems.
Antiviral Therapy | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/...
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are antimalarial drugs that were studied to treat COVID-19. Ivermectin Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is being evaluated to treat COVID-19. Lopinavir/Ritonavir and Other HIV Protease Inhibitors Protease inhibitors are antiretroviral drugs for HIV that were studied as treatments for COVID-19. Nitazoxanide
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Joel, as JoAnn observes, the only posts you make are negative. Doesn't that tell you something about yourself?
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"The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) recommends against the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine and/or azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients (AI) and in nonhospitalized patients (AIIa)".
Thanks for the chuckle, OP, and step slowly away from the computer, OK?
However, if like me, you prefer the company of a few humans, do what you can to avoid harm: Vax up, good hand hygiene & cough etiquette, stay in when ill.
Let go of wht you can't control.
Drugs can be helpful, sure. But not magical cure-alls.
And surely getting vaccinated to prevent is preferable to trying unproven treatments to heal.
It used to be that 95 percent of those who get hosped now are fully unvaccinated. This is down to about 85 percent because vaccinations do wane, particularly J&J. It is prudent for everyone to get their booster as well.
Of course vaccinated people catch covid, Joel. It's about five times less likely, and 30 TIMES LESS LIKELY that they'll end up in the hospital. Why aren't more people in SNFs dying of covid? Because they're mostly vaccinated.
The vaccine is a preventative meant to reduce the strength of the virus if you get infected.
The links are about meds used to treat the virus.
Two different things.
This really isn't the forum to get into a rabid vaxxer/antivaxxer debate. .
It never hurts to read up on what the treatment options du jour are, in case you end up in the hospital. That way you can be involved in your healthcare.
When the vaccines rolled out, people in SNFs stopped dying or getting hosped from covid. There's nothing worse than living your life out on a ventilator unable to see people, which USED to be what happened before the vaccines when people were actually trying unproven drugs.