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2021-07-17 Science & Technology

How statins can cut the risk of severe Covid-19: Cholesterol-busting pills reduce patients' odds of dying from the disease by 41%, research suggests

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Not another miracle cure?!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-17 04:21|| 2021-07-17 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The article clearly reads "reduced risk".

Posted by Spoter B 2021-07-17 07:31|| 2021-07-17 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Data analysis and interpretation. They should never have disembarked those passengers from the cruise ship. It was a contained environment to allow real scientific observation of who, what, when of the disease. Now we're having the dig through all the inputs, a lot of which is corrupted by greed, CYA and politics

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-17 07:34|| 2021-07-17 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 At least someone is searching for answers. Please continue the research suggestions.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-17 07:37|| 2021-07-17 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 #3
I agree, but one could still gain a lot of info by interviewing the cruise ship passengers now. They were a perfect petri dish of sorts.

Posted by Spoter B 2021-07-17 07:54|| 2021-07-17 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh. I guess this means they've eliminated the adverse heart and stroke effects caused by statins... right? right?

Posted by Mercutio 2021-07-17 10:12|| 2021-07-17 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 For those of us who have been paying attention, this seems to tie in with other stuff regarding the virus and the ACE2 receptor.

(Which you can read about here:

https://heart.bmj.com/content/106/19/1503)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-17 12:42|| 2021-07-17 12:42|| Front Page Top

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