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Study shows Covid-19 patients who took heartburn drug were less likely to die, but researchers caution more research is needed


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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/health/famotidine-covid-19-correlation-study/index.html
 

Patients who took a common heartburn medicine while hospitalized for Covid-19 were more than twice as likely to survive the infection, according to a paper posted Friday on a pre-publication website.

Compared to the rest of the patients, those who received famotidine had a greater than 2-fold decreased risk of either dying or being intubated," according to a statement by authors of the study at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

He said 233 patients have been enrolled in the study, and Northwell had planned to announce preliminary results when they enrolled 390 patients

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3 minutes ago, kothavani said:

Thu dini amma roju oka story okaru ciggerette antadu , enda antadu, enni theories ra babu

1000’s of teams are doing research On covid, as it is global issue now, so u expect to see development on their research coming out every day

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