Interesting times.
A massive Welcome trust multination study has just completed as part of the Recovery Initiative. 45,000+ Sars-CoV-2 infection patients, 184 sites, multiple countries, 4000+ doctors and researchers.
Some key takeaways;
. Treatments are no replacement for avoiding infection, vaccines are still the best and safest option.
- Aspirin is useless.
- Hydroxychloroquine is useless.
- Convalescent Plasma is useless.
- Azithromycin is useless.
- Colchicine is useless.
- Lopinavir-Ritonavir is useless.
+ Dexamethasone helps reduce deaths and aids recovery in up to 1/3rd of hospitalised patients.
+ Regeneron's monoclonal antibody has helped reduce death's in patients that do not have their own immune response.
+ Tocilizumab reduces deaths in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
The actual results linked here, https://www.recoverytrial.net/results
Some of the lead people involved in this massive study have in the recent weeks been awarded knighthoods, it's estimated the study has saved more than 1 million lives in just a few months.
A massive Welcome trust multination study has just completed as part of the Recovery Initiative. 45,000+ Sars-CoV-2 infection patients, 184 sites, multiple countries, 4000+ doctors and researchers.
Some key takeaways;
. Treatments are no replacement for avoiding infection, vaccines are still the best and safest option.
- Aspirin is useless.
- Hydroxychloroquine is useless.
- Convalescent Plasma is useless.
- Azithromycin is useless.
- Colchicine is useless.
- Lopinavir-Ritonavir is useless.
+ Dexamethasone helps reduce deaths and aids recovery in up to 1/3rd of hospitalised patients.
+ Regeneron's monoclonal antibody has helped reduce death's in patients that do not have their own immune response.
+ Tocilizumab reduces deaths in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
The actual results linked here, https://www.recoverytrial.net/results
Some of the lead people involved in this massive study have in the recent weeks been awarded knighthoods, it's estimated the study has saved more than 1 million lives in just a few months.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"