IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, DRUG ‘EM

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Via Yahoo News

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19

A cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19 in a study hunting for existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat coronavirus.

Researchers tested the pill used for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder because it was known to reduce inflammation and looked promising in smaller studies.

They’ve shared the results with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which publishes treatment guidelines, and they hope for a World Health Organization recommendation.

“If WHO recommends this, you will see it widely taken up,” said study co-author Dr. Edward Mills of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, adding that many poor nations have the drug readily available. “We hope it will lead to a lot of lives saved.”

The pill, called fluvoxamine, would cost $4 for a course of COVID-19 treatment. By comparison, antibody IV treatments cost about $2,000 and Merck’s experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 is about $700 per course. Some experts predict various treatments eventually will be used in combination to fight the coronavirus.

Researchers tested the antidepressant in nearly 1,500 Brazilians recently infected with coronavirus who were at risk of severe illness because of other health problems, such as diabetes. About half took the antidepressant at home for 10 days, the rest got dummy pills. They were tracked for four weeks to see who landed in the hospital or spent extended time in an emergency room when hospitals were full.

In the group that took the drug, 11% needed hospitalization or an extended ER stay, compared to 16% of those on dummy pills.

The results, published Wednesday in the journal Lancet Global Health, were so strong that independent experts monitoring the study recommended stopping it early because the results were clear.

Questions remain about the best dosing, whether lower risk patients might also benefit and whether the pill should be combined with other treatments.

The larger project looked at eight existing drugs to see if they could work against the pandemic virus. The project is still testing a hepatitis drug, but all the others — including metformin, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin — haven’t panned out.

The cheap generic and Merck’s COVID-19 pill work in different ways and “may be complementary,” said Dr. Paul Sax of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the study. Earlier this month, Merck asked regulators in the U.S. and Europe to authorize its antiviral pill.

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Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

Fluvoxamine (Prozac) is a well known veterinary drug to treat separation anxiety in dogs. So DON’T TAKE IT. It is not for humans.

Ken31
Ken31

Oh. So Big Pharma is trying to get us to eat puppy pills now? No thanks. I will get 10 boosters of each brand of the Vaxxx just to be safe.

country boy
country boy

Prozac is fluoxatine, not fluvoxamine

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

You are right. I could have killed someone if I had prescribed the wrong drug based on similar sounding names!!! Almost like that time when they mistook hydroxychloroquine for some other similar sounding drug (was it hydroxyquinine?) in an early Covid study in the spring of 2020 and therefore used a toxically high dose.

In any case, I think my point was that they treat us like dogs or cattle anyways…

Fluvoxamine can also be used off label in dogs to treat aggressiveness. So how fitting, that they are recommending it now in humans. It could keep us tame, the rabid anti-vaxxer aggressive alpha dogs.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Yes, they believe that we are equal to cattle. Cattle, but not horses or else they’d let us have our Ivermectin.

MrLiberty

You’re going to die from our neglect and our orchestrated plannedemic, but at least you won’t be depressed. LOL

Anonymous
Anonymous

Then you will need Viagra for your wang dysfunction.

country boy
country boy

Already have it.

brian
brian

the wang dysfunction!?!? Better get the jab then, its also supposed to cure wankers… 🙂

Warren
Warren

The first computer I used was a Wang

Ghost
Ghost
Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

Oh boy.

Ken31
Ken31

So the ‘kill everyone with the vaxx’ fails and they walk back to cheap cures and throw the middle men under the bus. They continue inflating the bubble for some more years while plan B is brought to maturation.

Sound plausible? Or is this just noise meant to dazzle and confuse and Winter Is Coming?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I read as “plan B is brought to masturbation”, but then again I am a pervert.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

Isn’t that always plan B?

Ghost
Ghost

For Stucky, it is a substep of most plans if I remember correctly.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Some alternative medicine sites promote orgasm therapy, so yeah, it may be a Plan B for those folks.

They also promote urine therapy (gag), but at least it wouldn’t change your DNA.

Swrichmond
Swrichmond

I.ver.mec.tin

m
m

The med-who-must-not-be-named.

Vigilant
Vigilant

I tried to get some from my primary recently, the Dr. said that it hadn’t been researched enough yet. Ha

nkit
nkit

My doc went all apeshit on me like I was wearing a wire or something when I asked…..after over 20 years…smh

Ignatius J. Reilly
Ignatius J. Reilly

This info was out early on, but they suppressed it. Glad some truth is seeing daylight.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf

Or make you a homicidal lunatic since it is an SSRI drug.

No thanks. Paxil was enough for me to realize that SSRI antidepressant/anxiety meds are what create killers.

I will stick with ivermectin.

ZFG, out.

Ken31
Ken31

Psychiatric drugs can have wildly variable effects, because the entire field is just guess work and supposition.

Balbinus

They gave me an SSRI once. One pill and I was considering killing my wife. This is one drug that should never be sold period.

BL
BL

The insanity is never ending. TPTB just keep digging themselves a deeper hole with this ridiculous crap. I’m seriously thinking about turning off anything with the word Covid/Coronavirus in the content. I’m surprised I have lasted this long, it’s only because I don’t trust much of anything anymore especially these Big Pharma drug Nazis.

Who would really fall for this? HF has it right, if you can’t beat ’em, drug ’em. So, I guess we ARE “WINNING”.

falconflight
falconflight

Wasn’t a central theme of Huxley’s BNW involving a psychotropic?

Ghost
Ghost

Was it “Soma?” Or was that in 1984?

falconflight
falconflight

Soma in BNW, thx.

BL
BL

Soma does actually exist.

Balbinus

Just went for my yearly eye exam today. They REQUIRED a mask, no options. I still need an eye exam.

falconflight
falconflight
Vigilant
Vigilant

Takes me back to when MTV was all about the music.

Balbinus

BINO—-Baptist in name only. Not a chance this group are Baptist.

falconflight
falconflight

I regularly read Reformation Charlotte. It makes me wretch. It makes me think that indeed Satan rules man on this planet, and I’m at best agnostic. Well, maybe I’m off the fence at this point.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Cheap and effective, two words Pharma will not allow FDA to use.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Oh the irony, prescribe a psychotropic drug for a virus that has never been isolated. How about giving it to the mentally ill WEF and their puppets instead, and leave the regular people who are not on any antidepressants alone?

gatsby1219
gatsby1219

Who knew, people still read Yahoo.com ?

Taras 77
Taras 77

The project is still testing a hepatitis drug, but all the others — including metformin, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin — haven’t panned out.

Curious as to the background for that statement pertaining to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin — haven’t panned out.

Anybody have any insight?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yes. They are lying. Hydro and Iver are the antithesis to this part of the one worlders’ agenda, so they can’t very well say anything good about them. Plus Yahoo being Yahoo, they’re going to spin it way left anyway.

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