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New York clinical trail The fast-growing list of possible treatments for the novel coronavirus includes an unlikely candidate: famotidine, the active compound in the over-the-counter heartburn drug Pepcid

New York clinical trial quietly tests heartburn remedy against coronavirus The fast-growing list of possible treatments for the novel coronavirus includes an unlikely candidate: famotidine, the active compound in the over-the-counter heartburn drug Pepcid. On 7 April, the first COVID-19 patients at Northwell Health in the New York City area began receiving famotidine intravenously, at nine times the heartburn dose. Unlike other drugs the 23-hospital system is testing, including Regeneron’s sarilumab and Gilead Science’s remdesivir, Northwell kept the famotidine study under wraps to secure a research stockpile before other hospitals, or even the federal government, started buying it. “If we talked about this to the wrong people or too soon, the drug supply would be gone,” says Kevin Tracey, a former neurosurgeon in charge of the hospital system’s research. As of Saturday, 187 COVID-19 patients in critical status, including many on ventilators, have been enrolled in the trial, wh...

Coronavirus ‘L’ Strain Causing Higher Deaths rate In Gujrat And Madhya Pradesh

Coronavirus ‘L’ Strain Causing Higher Deaths In Gujrat And Madhya Pradesh Written By: vinod Kumar kushwaha                 Msc in Microbiologi: kanpur University 14/5/2020 A more virulent strain of coronavirus may be wreaking havoc in Indore, the hotspot in Madhya Pradesh, claimed doctors. The samples of 57 people who were killed by the COVID-19 will be sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune to confirm their doubts of the strain being deadlier than those in other parts of the country. Jyoti Bindal, Dean of Government Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College said they have a feeling that the strain is more virulent in the Indore belt. Patients turning up late at the hospital is also a factor for the high fatality rate in Indore. L strain history in China The high  coronavirus  mortality rate in Gujarat could be due to the dominance of the L-type strain of coronavirus, found to have been more prevalen...