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Commonly used gout drug found effective against COVID-19
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Commonly used gout drug found effective against COVID-19

by David Mitchell, University of Georgia Time to viral load clearance. Shown is a Kaplan–Meier plot with 95% Hall–Wellner bands of time to clearance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by treatment. Quartiles are derived from Kaplan–Meier product limit estimates. P-value is based on the Log-Rank test for comparing between treatment groups. Credit: Viruses (2023). DOI: 10.3390/v15071508 An anti-inflammatory drug commonly...

A gout drug shows promise for Covid-19, but skeptics worry about trusting science by press release
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A gout drug shows promise for Covid-19, but skeptics worry about trusting science by press release

By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper JANUARY 23, 2021 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, NIH Apress release from a Canadian research group raised hopes that treating people recently diagnosed with Covid-19 with colchicine, a drug commonly used to treat gout, could reduce the risk they will need to be hospitalized. But outside experts said the data provided were too...