Convalescent plasma

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Prospective RCT. Not surprising but still kind of a bummer.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2103784

 

[GassYous]

Nothing helps for covid except maybe decadron but some people are making money hand over fist by peddling their fake cures

 

[dhb]

Nothing helps for covid except maybe decadron but some people are making money hand over fist by peddling their fake cures

Why would decadron work?

 

[chessknt]

Why would decadron work?

Almost everything that causes lung pathology gets better with steroids

 

[dhb]

Almost everything that we don't know how to treat gets better with steroids

 

[deleted875186]

Last I looked decadron had pretty clear evidence it helped for severe disease.

 

[IMGASMD]

I’ll take your finest dose of placebo for fractions of the cost please.

 

[Iso4ane]

From what I recall, it seems a lot of the negative side effects from COVID are from over activity of the immune system, so immunosuppression should help a little.