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People desperate for a reliable therapeutic will try anything. I actually read a really interesting study that looked at a whole host of medications

Posted by Tenetennbaron (aka BaronWasteland) Sep 15 '21, 08:47

that are already approved for other things and if helpful could be repurposed. Like thousands of drugs. I don't know how they tested so many.

Authors narrowed it to three dozen that showed promise and down to 9 (I think) which were particularly effective, at least in a lab setting. It was quite the random assortment too. Ivermectin did not make the cut, but atovaquone did, as did vitamin D3. (I did not know D had numbers.)

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I've been taking vitamin D since the pandemic started (once weekly) -- nm - oblique Sep 15, 08:56 1
- I take it every day. But I actually was doing that before the pandemic as well. -- nm - pmb Sep 15, 09:12
I think that list was how they came up with hydrocloroquine...D3 is required by those who are deficient currently -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 15, 08:52 2
- The manuscript I was reading did not list hydro as one of the winners. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 15, 09:17 1
  - Here is the list they published. - Tenetennbaron Sep 15, 09:24

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People desperate for a reliable therapeutic will try anything. I actually read a really interesting study that looked at a whole host of medications

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