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Common blood thinner that costs just £16.50 can spare Covid patients from severe lung damage and boost oxygen levels by 70%, study suggests
2022-01-19
[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
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Posted by:Skidmark

#10  if you thin your blood - YOU WILL BLEED TO DEATH FROM A SCRATCH!!!! -- MSM
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-01-19 22:56  

#9  ^ ditto for warfarin
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-19 20:10  

#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  

#7  Gee, just like aspirin...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2022-01-19 19:48  

#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  

#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  

#4  Leach Medicine!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-19 13:20  

#3  Or they will jack up the price 3,000%
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-01-19 13:02  

#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  

#1  It will need to be banned for human use immediately!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-19 12:12  

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