Doctors have warned that inflammation is causing the severe effects of Covid-19 disease in patients, and said reducing those effects may be key to helping people get better
is causing the severe effects of Covid-19 disease in patients, and said reducing those effects may be key to helping people get better.
Teams across the US are testing a variety of immune-modulating drugs often prescribed for conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and cancer, Dr. Vincent Marconi of the Emory University School of Medicine told a briefing organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Marconi described more than a dozen drugs that are being tried out in severely ill Covid-19 patients. Various drugs attack inflammation from different angles and might tamp down the so-called cytokine storm that appears to be causing the worst damage in advanced patients, Marconi said.
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