Coronavirus treatment
Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a covid shot, threatening to undermine the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history. In some cases, anti-vaccine activists are fabricating stories of deaths that never occurred. “This is exactly what anti-vaccine groups do,”…
Antibodies are key to fighting COVID-19, but between convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibody drugs and vaccines, how and when you get those antibodies matters. All three of these treatments produce antibodies designed to recognize SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and help your immune system fight it before it wreaks havoc…
A new study is claiming that a cocktail of the mineral zinc, the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and the antibiotic azithromycin lead to fewer hospitalizations and deaths in patients with COVID-19. Of 518 COVID-19 patients who were not hospitalized, 2.8% of those who were treated with the combination therapy were hospitalized…
Are you considering taking a COVID-19 antibody test to see if you’ve already had the disease? Not all tests are equal. Read below to find out which tests the FDA has validated. Also, a new study was released which concludes how taking antidepressants while pregnant can affect the newborns. FDA…
One of the most promising treatments for COVID-19 is convalescent plasma, a component of blood. People who have been infected with the virus and are now healthy have developed COVID-19-fighting antibodies, which, the theory is, can be given to people currently sick with COVID-19 so that those antibodies can boost…
Should you take ibuprofen if you have COVID-19? Can taking ibuprofen make you more susceptible to coronavirus? Tylenol or ibuprofen, what should you take?
As the numbers of those infected by COVID-19 continue to mount, there are growing calls to use untested treatments. Doctors are using existing drugs and “repurposing” them to treat coronavirus patients in the hope it will heal them
Doctors are combining Z-Pak (azithromycin) with chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. Both drugs affect the heart, are they safe to take together?