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customerserviceguy

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2. Not being familiar with this class of drugs

Reply to lambchopp59 (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2020, 05:00 PM

Mar 2020

are antiretroviral agents expensive? And are we willing to give an expensive drug to an infected younger person otherwise without medical problems, when it might be better to give it to an older person who might not have that many years left anyway?

Drugs may be a solution, but administering the solution can be complicated.

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Possibly encouraging news, one patient cured of COVID 19 with antiretroviral agent [View all] lambchopp59 Mar 2020 OP

how do they know the patient didn't just recover on their own? IcyPeas Mar 2020 #1

I wondered the same. It's why it's only being treated as a "possible" treatment lambchopp59 Mar 2020 #3

Not being familiar with this class of drugs customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #2

Thailand reported in late January or early February Warpy Mar 2020 #4

This.I wondered the same thing too after reading HIV/Sars "cocktail" was promising. stuffmatters Mar 2020 #5