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Re:In NYC, almost 9 in 10 Covid-19 patients on ventilators d... by guylepage3 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:31AM (#22956421)
An article I read somewhere was suggesting that doctors should have tried using traditional antibiotics to treat patients instead of intubating them. This of course is strictly anecdotal.
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Re:In NYC, almost 9 in 10 Covid-19 patients on ventilators d... by timerol on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:46AM (#22956589)
Using traditional antibiotics against a virus is not particularly likely to help. Traditional antivirals are in a number of studies currently.

By my non-expert estimate, remdesivir seems to be the most likely candidate. It's not approved for use in the US yet, but is well on the path: https://www.drugs.com/history/remdesivir.html

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Re:In NYC, almost 9 in 10 Covid-19 patients on ventilators d... by catalogia on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:46AM (#22956596)
That's odd since coronavirus is a virus, not a bacteria, so I wouldn't expect antibiotics to be relevant except insofar as they would suppress opportunistic infections.
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