COVID 19, CPAP, Ventilator MEGA THREAD...everything go here please

The results of the clinical trial, called Recovery, have not yet been published in a medical journal and the data have not been made available for outside experts to review. Researchers said they stopped the trial early because of the observed benefits.

Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, expressed frustration on Twitter that "it is now a feature of this pandemic that most findings made public via press release with little data to provide context." But, he added, "this is REALLY good news if it turns out to be true."

A common steroid drug that's been used for decades to treat conditions from altitude sickness to eye inflammation has been shown to reduce deaths by a third in the sickest patients in the hospital with COVID-19, British scientists say.

This is the first time, the researchers say, that a drug has been shown to have an effect on deaths rates of the virus that's killed more than 110,000 people in the U.S.

Researchers at the University of Oxford in the U.K. compared outcomes of 2,104 hospitalized patients who received the steroid, called dexamethasone, with 4,321 patients who did not.

According to the researchers, deaths were reduced by about a third in those patients who were sick enough to require mechanical ventilation, and by about 20 percent among patients who had trouble breathing, but had not been put on a ventilator. Dexamethasone did not appear to help patients who did not require oxygen.

"The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment," Dr. Peter Horby, one of the Recovery study researchers and a professor at the University of Oxford, said in a press release. "Dexamethasone is inexpensive, on the shelf, and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide."

Full article: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-n ... s-n1231158

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:34 pm

First, a word of caution.

zonker wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:03 pm

here's another that my wife pointed out to me an hour ago-

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

raisedfist wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:57 pm

Are any of you guys taking supplements? I've been taking vitamins D, C and Zinc. Not crazy amounts; 5000ui D, 1g C, 30mg Zinc. I figure it can't hurt.

raisedfist wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:57 pm

Are any of you guys taking supplements? I've been taking vitamins D, C and Zinc. Not crazy amounts; 5000ui D, 1g C, 30mg Zinc. I figure it can't hurt.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 17, 2020 7:47 am

zonker wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:03 pm

here's another that my wife pointed out to me an hour ago-

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

Well, that doesn't make it sound so exciting, ...

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... unless you or a loved one is the ONE.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:54 am

Cool. In a macabre way.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualis ... rBDT90YXmE

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:54 am

Cool. In a macabre way.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualis ... rBDT90YXmE

McSleepy wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:34 pm

Interesting. I'm just curious what they mean (in the footnote) by "Except COVID, causes of death shown account for ~7% of global deaths annually"

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:48 am

McSleepy wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:34 pm

Interesting. I'm just curious what they mean (in the footnote) by "Except COVID, causes of death shown account for ~7% of global deaths annually"

It means the causes of death shown in the chart represent ~7% of all causes of death in a typical year. There are many causes of death. The ones in the chart represent the top 7%*. COVID-19 is clearly "winning the race". And, notice the exponential spread of COVID deaths.

*Since COVID-19 is new this year, it's not included in the 7%.