Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 will be treated with HIV and malaria drugs and perhaps even head lice treatment in a bid to prevent them reaching the point where they need ventilators to survive
Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 will be treated with HIV and malaria drugs and perhaps even head lice treatment in a bid to keep them out of intensive care.
It was revealed on Tuesday that testing could also be expanded to include the head lice treatment drug ivermectin, after Monash University researchers suggested it could kill the virus in a test tube within 48 hours. Previous clinical trials using these two drugs to treat COVID-19 patients have produced mixed results.New England Journal of Medicine
"The aim is really to see whether using these drugs will prevent patients deteriorating to the point of needing a ventilator," said lead researcher Associate Professor Steven Tong, an infectious disease clinician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital."Some studies have shown that these two drugs can work against the virus in the laboratory, but we need to now test them in patients to know for sure whether they will work in humans.
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