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.
and obsessive-compulsive disorder because it was known to reduce inflammation and looked promising in smaller studies.
“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 treatment. By comparison, antibody IV treatments cost about $2,000 and Merck's experimental antiviral pill for Covid is about $700 per course.
In the group that took the drug, 11 percent needed hospitalization or an extended ER stay, compared to 16 percent of those on dummy pills.
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