- Doctors from China conducted a Phase 2 trial for a triple-drug therapy in COVID-19 cases, proving that the three medicines can speed up recovery in mild to moderate cases.
- Coronavirus patients who were given the three drugs being asymptomatic faster than the control group and cleared the virus in an average time of one week.
- The control group that was on an HIV drug that is also being tested for COVID-19 needed 12 days, on average, to test negative for the novel coronavirus.
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The novel coronavirus had infected more than 4 million people worldwide as of Saturday morning, of which nearly 280,000 died fighting the disease. Some 2.4 million cases remain active around the world, but the number is likely far higher than that. Asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 patients can go undetected in many countries where there aren’t enough tests to go around. But the world has made tremendous progress at treating the disease and it’s going to be even easier to treat patients in the years to come, as we wait for viable vaccines to become widely available.
Remdesivir can reduce the recovery time from 15 days to 11 days according to a study that included more than 1,000 people, and is considered standard therapy for COVID-19. There’s not enough of the drug to go around though, so remdesivir alone won’t be enough. The drug can’t reduce mortality rates either, so additional medicines will be required. Blood thinners can reduce COVID-19 complications and death risk, as a different study has shown. Men given a specific type of prostate cancer treatment might also experience a milder COVID-19 case.
These are all COVID-19 therapy developments that have been detailed in the past few days. Now, we have gotten word of another novel coronavirus treatment that works, a triple-drug combo that can dramatically speed up recovery in mild and moderate cases.
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