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The researchers at Washington University of St. Louis are recruiting 1,100 people in the beginning stages of Covid-19 to test out the drug fluvoxamine, also known as Luvox. While an anti-depressant may seem like an unlikely candidate to fight Covid-19, a small study in November indicated it might have some success, and it's been known for years that modern anti-depressants, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, have anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers won't physically check the patients. Instead, along with the study drugs, the researchers send the participants a thermometer, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter, a device placed on the fingertip to measure blood oxygen levels. Patients record their measurements on the study's website, and research staff call patients daily during the early part of the trial. This new way of doing clinical trials has already proven to be efficient.
Off label use is definitely not uncommon that’s how viagra came to be!
Nice narrative. It is certainly not used as an anti depressant.
Meanwhilre ignoring Ivermectin, used throughout the world for same.
The next HDC, pretty fucking responsible cnn to report this drivel
Can I just take psilocybin mushrooms 🍄 instead