Cassandra Szklarski February 09, 2021 - 2:31 PM
TORONTO - Alongside the headline-grabbing race for a COVID-19 vaccine, the hunt for effective treatments has unfolded with its own share of flameouts and triumphs.
Thanks to large randomized trials in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, administering steroids to patients with moderate or severe illness has become part of standard care, but clinicians say few other tools have emerged.
The best known COVID-19 drug is likely dexamethasone, a corticosteroid with anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant effects for hospitalized patients who need help breathing.
But while that drug is credited with helping efforts to bring down hospital mortality rates, credit also goes to discoveries about what does not work against the novel coronavirus â thereby ensuring people get appropriate care.
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This project provides accessible resources that are grounded in Indigenous histories, cultures, and worldviews, Caroline Lidstone-Jones, CEO of the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council, said in a press release. By sharing traditional knowledges and healing practices along with Western, scientific information about vaccines, these resources provide information to enable and empower people to make informed decisions about their own health and well-being.
Dr. Ojistoh Horn is a general practitioner Akwesasne, outside Cornwall, Ont.(Submitted by Ojistoh Horn)
Horn is a family doctor and the only full-time physician practising in Akwesasne near Cornwall, Ont.
She says some folks in her community are ready and willing to get the jab, while others are nervous to roll up their sleeves for a country that s misled them time and again.