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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone heard about steroids being used to tre... by davismwfl on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:40PM (#23761827)
Yep dexamethasone is a very well known drug used in both human and animal medicine. Ironically it is used for breathing issues quite often in animal medicine so it isn't surprising to see it have some benefits with Covid IMO.

Also ivermectin (anti-parasite drug) is being tested with and without the addition of dex which is kinda interesting but only time will tell how the studies come out. But it is interesting. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422... has a little about the ivermectin as a treatment.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone heard about steroids being used to tre... by giardini on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:27AM (#23770184)
FWIW Ivermectin is not a steroid and discussion of ivermectin here is not relevant to the OP. Many other threads on this forum discuss ivermectin.
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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone heard about steroids being used to tre... by davismwfl on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:32AM (#23770240)
If you read my comment you should have seen I pointed out ivermectin is an "anti-parasite drug", not a corticosteroid as dexamethasone is. As for the relevance, the two drugs are being used in combination as a treatment in numerous studies and preliminary results seem promising.
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