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Early last year, Angela Reiersen, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis, took ill with what she suspected was COVID-19. Because of a shortage of tests at the time, she never found out for sure, and she recovered before long. But the experience got her thinking about something.
Reiersen had recently seen research suggesting that an antidepressant called fluvoxamine was useful in treating sepsis, a potentially fatal condition in which the body releases a dangerous imbalance of chemicals known as cytokines into the bloodstream in response to an infection.
Might fluvoxamine also be effective in treating COVID-19?
On March 25, Reiersen sent an email to a colleague, Eric Lenze, also a psychiatrist, asking what he thought of her idea. Lenze was equally intrigued.
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Antidepressant May Help Avoid Serious COVID Illness By Ralph Ellis
Feb. 3, 2021 The anti-depressant Fluvoxamine shows promise in preventing people infected with coronavirus from developing serious symptoms and having to be hospitalized, according to a non-randomized study of California racetrack workers. What we observed was that all the patients who received Fluvoxamine, none of them had a severe COVID infection that affected their lungs or their respiratory status, Caline Mattar, MD, told KNBC in Los Angeles. Mattar is an infectious disease researcher at Washington University in St. Louis who helped conduct the study that was published in
Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
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