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| California doctor says arthritis drug being tested in the US and France to treat coronavirus has improved patients' symptoms within 72 hours |
| 2020-05-08 |
| [MAIL] A California physician says a rheumatoid arthritis drug could be an effective treatment for coronavirus. Dr Imran Sharief, a pulmonologist based in Santa Ana, told Fox News that he treated COVID-19 patients on ventilators with tocilizumab, sold under the brand names RoAcemtra and Actemra, Within 72 hours, their conditions began to improve and, after five days, he was able to extubate patients and move them out of the ICU. With no approved treatments specifically for the virus, there is a pressing need to test both existing medicines and experimental therapies to stop the disease - which has killed more than 74,000 Americans - in its tracks. Tocilizumab belongs to a class of drugs called interleukin-6 inhibitors that could help mitigate a dangerous overreaction to the virus by the body's immune system called a cytokine storm. These so-called storms occur when the body doesn't just fight off the virus but also attacks its own cells and tissues. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Move along, move along. Nuthin' to see here. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-08 20:15 |
| #2 You mean Anti-Trumpers hardest it. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-08 20:07 |
| #1 If true, we now have HCQ for before the infection progresses to severe & this anti IL-6 for severe stage. Ventilator manufacturers hardest hit. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-05-08 06:16 |