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$15 drug gets COVID patients off oxygen support in under week – study:
Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate)[*] didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study.
Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review.
Specifically, the team that was led by HU's Prof. Yaakov Nahmias carried out the study at Israel's Barzilai Medical Center in coordination with the hospital's head of the Infectious Disease Unit, Prof. Shlomo Maayan, and with support from Abbott Laboratories.
[...] The 15 treated patients all had pneumonia and required oxygen support. They were also older with multiple comorbidities, ranging from diabetes and obesity to high blood pressure.
"The results were dramatic," Nahmias told The Jerusalem Post. "Progressive inflammation markers, which are the hallmark of deteriorative COVID-19, dropped within 48 hours of treatment. Moreover, 14 of the 15 severe patients didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment." The 15th patient was off oxygen within 10 days.
When looking at the data on other similar severe patients, less than 30% of them on average are removed from oxygen support within a week. In other words, fenofibrate could dramatically shorten the treatment time for severe COVID patients.
"We know these kinds of patients deteriorate really fast, develop a cytokine storm in five to seven days and that it can take weeks to treat them and for them to get better," Nahmias said. "We gave these patients fenofibrate and the study shows inflammation dropped incredibly fast. They did not seem to develop a cytokine storm[**] at all."
Cytokine storms are aggressive inflammatory responses to illness.
[*] Fenofibrate entries on MedlinePlus and Wikipedia.
[**] Cytokine storm on Wikipedia.
Journal Reference:
Yaakov Nahmias, Avner Ehrlich, Konstantinos Ioannidis, et al. Metabolic Regulation of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-770724/v1)
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday August 29 2021, @01:37PM (4 children)
If there's no difference in the probability of catching COVID, then the vaccine was very oversold. While I *do* believe it was oversold, I don't believe that it was THAT oversold. Several instances reported second hand cause me to suspect that the delta strain is much more likely to infect someone who has been vaccinated than were the earlier strains. This is, of course, based on anecdotal data, and therefore shouldn't be given any certainty, but studies have been wrong before now, and I don't know his study. (I don't follow youtube.) Since he also pushes ivermectin I consider his more dubious than I did before looking him up.
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(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday August 29 2021, @02:40PM
re: cambell, he follows the numbers and when he finds numbers, he wont dispute them. watch him over time and he admits when earlier analysis was wrong (many dont do that).
he takes his numbers from the british equiv of the cdc, and for the US, the cdc. so I trust that when he directly quotes them, its real data. direct quotes are in italics, on his walk-thrus (he uses old school paper since, well, he's from that era).
dont trust 100% of anyone's words, but more often than not, this guy is worth listening to. imho of course.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Opportunist on Monday August 30 2021, @09:25AM (2 children)
Frankly, if the vaccine changes an infection from "start praying for survival, and if you survive, start praying for no lasting effects" to "feeling kinda woozy for a few days like with a cold", I wouldn't consider it oversold.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday August 30 2021, @01:41PM (1 child)
Unfortunately, you still have to "pray for no lasting effects" even if the case is milder. How often is a question I haven't seen answered. Actually, I haven't seen it answered even if you aren't vaccinated, except that we know lasting effects like death are much more common in that case.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 30 2021, @02:00PM
Well, at least once you're dead your condition is about as stable as it could possibly be...