New drugs identified as possible tools to fight COVID-19
There will probably never be a perfect treatment to cure COVID-19 but the right medications for the right patients can save lives.
ByMichael Greshko
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After grappling with the virus SARS-CoV-2 for more than a year, clinics still face the same reality they did months ago: There are no quick and easy fixes for treating COVID-19.
“I’m not surprised that we don’t have a magic bullet,” says the Cleveland Clinic’s Adarsh Bhimraj, one of the lead authors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) COVID-19 treatment guidelines. “None of the respiratory viral infections that we’ve known for all these decades and centuries has a magic bullet.”
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142 For 10 years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, each weekday morning, Jeremy Wilhelm walked from his house in Grant Park to the King Memorial MARTA station.
There, he caught a train to Five Points and then walked another few blocks to his job in a Marietta Street office tower. In fact, when he and his wife were shopping for a house, their top requirement was being within walking distance of MARTA, says Wilhelm, a project manager and analyst at Westat.
Then, the coronavirus showed up, and Wilhelmâs office shut down. Heâs been working out of his living room since March 2020 and expects to do so indefinitely. His wife, Holly, used to commute by MARTA, too, riding the train up to Buckhead. Her job as an aptitude consultant for the Johnson OâConnor Research Foundation requires her to be in the office a couple of days a week, but these days,
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Rheumatoid arthritis drug shows promise in fighting Covid-19
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Joseph Walker
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A new study shows an anti-inflammatory drug can help treat certain severe symptoms of Covid-19, and adds a tool for helping the sickest patients
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An anti-inflammatory drug can help reduce the risk of death in people hospitalized with Covid-19, a new clinical trial indicates, reviving hopes and debate about a medicine that many physicians had abandoned after earlier clinical-trial failures.
A UK study of more than 4,000 hospitalized patients showed that people who received the rheumatoid arthritis drug tocilizumab plus steroids had a 20% lower risk of death after 28 days compared with patients who received steroids and standard care only, according to preliminary results posted online this month.