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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by giardini on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:53PM (#24368103)
ReflectedImage says>"There are other drugs now that both work and have a large effect (20%). Hydroxychloroquine possible 5% increase in survival rate pales in comparsion. Given it's also poisonous I don't see why you would want to use it."<

Please name the other drugs that "both work and have a large effect (20%)".

Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by tempestn on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:49PM (#24370187)
Probably referring to Remdesivir.
Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by giardini on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:22AM (#24428865)
Does Remdesivir work?

"DESPITE THE HYPE, GILEAD’S REMDESIVIR WILL DO NOTHING TO END THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC"

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/26/coronavirus-gileand-remd...

FTFA:

>While some patients and their families have spent the past few weeks frantically trying to procure remdesivir, another Covid-19 treatment has been quietly been shown to be more effective. Although neither option appears to be the much-needed cure for Covid-19, a three-drug regimen offered a greater reduction in the time it took patients to recover than remdesivir did. People who took the combination of interferon beta-1b, lopinavir-ritonavir, and ribavirin got better in seven days as opposed to 12 days for those who didn’t take it. Critically, the treatment has another leg up on Gilead’s: It clearly reduced the amount of the coronavirus in patients who took it, according to a study published in The Lancet on May 8.<