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2022-01-19 Science & Technology

Common blood thinner that costs just £16.50 can spare Covid patients from severe lung damage and boost oxygen levels by 70%, study suggests

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

Researchers found heparin improves oxygen levels by 70% in Covid patients

They said the £16.50 drug could help treat people infected with the virus

Drug is usually used to treat blood clots and is commonly given in hospitals

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-19 09:52|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 It will need to be banned for human use immediately!

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-19 12:12|| 2022-01-19 12:12|| Front Page Top

#2 FDA will not approve. They and their handlers won't get paid enough for a cheap drug.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-01-19 13:01|| 2022-01-19 13:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Or they will jack up the price 3,000%

Posted by DarthVader 2022-01-19 13:02|| 2022-01-19 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Leach Medicine!

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-19 13:20|| 2022-01-19 13:20|| Front Page Top

#5 They give racehorses lasix (thus the expression p*ss like a racehorse) to prevent pulmonary edema. I was on it as part of my BP regimen for a long time. I wonder if it would have any salutary effects similar to this.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-19 13:24|| 2022-01-19 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Heparin (blood thinner) was on the Front Line COVID Critical Care doctors list in the spring of 2020.

It's still on the hospitalization protocol.

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-19 14:20|| 2022-01-19 14:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Gee, just like aspirin...

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-01-19 19:48|| 2022-01-19 19:48|| Front Page Top

#8 heparin is also used to kill rodents

The libs will love that even though as noted heparin has been used for humans as a blood thinner for many year (reduces and prevents blood clots)

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-01-19 20:00|| 2022-01-19 20:00|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ ditto for warfarin

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-19 20:10|| 2022-01-19 20:10|| Front Page Top

#10 if you thin your blood - YOU WILL BLEED TO DEATH FROM A SCRATCH!!!! -- MSM

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-01-19 22:56|| 2022-01-19 22:56|| Front Page Top

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