This Common Medication Could Save You From Severe COVID, New Study Says By Lauren Gray of Best Life | This Common Medication Could Save You From Severe COVID, New Study Says Every day that you don't become infected with COVID-19 buys experts time to discover the treatments that could someday save your life. In fact, one recent study out of Canada, which has yet to be peer reviewed, found that an anti-inflammatory medication already on the market as a treatment for gout could greatly reduce the rate of hospitalization and death in COVID-19 cases. According to the researchers out of Montreal Heart Institute, colchicine is cheap, orally administered, and has few known side effects. Read on to learn more about this promising treatment, and for other essential COVID news, check out If You Take These OTC Meds, You Have to Stop Before Getting the Vaccine.