Treating patients with “moderate” COVID-19 is a way to stop the disease from progressing to a severe stage that would require mechanical ventilation.
President Trump’s hype of a potential treatment for COVID-19 gives false hope to virus patients and causes real harm to others.
There’s also a passel of less celebrated drugs and therapies that are being tested in the United States and abroad. Some seem like a shot in the dark. Some are dangerous. And a few are truly promising. But anything that shows promise in keeping people with COVID-19 off ventilators is getting a look from scientists.. It was prescribed from 1957 to 1962 as a morning-sickness drug, but was pulled from the market after it was found to cause stunted limbs in babies born to mothers who took it. Now it’s used to treat leprosy and multiple myeloma, and was considered as a treatment for lung injury caused by the H1N1 flu virus when it first appeared in humans in 2009.
Thalidomide appears to tamp down inflammation in the lungs, reduce scarring, and rein in an overactive immune system. In Wenzhou, China, scientists arewhether the drug could shorten the time to recovery in patients with pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, and reduce the proportion of patients who need mechanical ventilation or die.
Recombinant human interferon is another drug with serious side effects. It’s used to treat some viral infections, as well as cancers like leukemia and melanoma. But it can cause depression, nausea, sleeplessness and flu-like symptoms that some would say make COVID-19 look like a day at the beach.
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