Posted on 06/16/2021 10:08:52 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
One of the earliest (of many) bizarre symptoms of COVID-19 was blood clotting in the lungs. These clots could easily be seen when an endotracheal tube was removed from a ventilated patient. The tube was coated with a whole lot of mucus with red streaks. Not so pleasant to look at.
Naturally, heparin, an anticoagulant, was tried. A modest positive effect on survival was seen in a large retrospective study reported in BMJ in February. But heparin is tricky to use. It is considered to be a high-risk drug because both over-and underuse can be fatal.
Aspirin, another blood thinner, is a safer and cheaper alternative in that it can be given orally or IV and does not carry the same risks as heparin or warfarin. But is it effective in treating COVID-19 patients? A new observational study concludes that it is.
Jonathan Chow, MD, University, and colleagues concluded that aspirin was useful in keeping people off ventilators and preventing COVID-19 deaths. Here is a summary of their findings.
412 patients were included in the study
314 did not receive aspirin, 98 did.
The 98 patients who received aspirin were a combination of those who were already taking aspirin before hospitalization and those given it following hospitalization.
After adjusting for 8 confounders, the use of aspirin was associated with a 44% decrease in ventilation, a 43% decrease in ICU admission, and a 47% decrease in deaths (in the hospital).
There was no difference in serious bleeding between the two groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at acsh.org ...
I have yet another dumb question: Were any of the “bizarre symptoms of COVID-19” ever determined to be symptoms of co-morbidities...or perhaps not symptoms at all but instead adverse consequences of treatment modalities employed?
They gave me heparin once. It made the soles of my feet itch like mad.
Aspirin... The cure to most things. Take two and call me in the morning.
Wouldn’t matter.
They’d hide the info.
What’s your number? ;-)
Most of the super blood thinners are being overused when simple aspirin would do.
That’s a good question, but I don’t think anyone bothered to try to find out.
Shutup, you racist homophobe.
Either that, or they will say it was Biden’s idea, as if he ever has an idea about anything.
A question crossed my mind: why are expensive, non-generic meds tried first? Then the answer crossed my mind: $$$
Sometimes I’m kinda slow :)
We can’t use aspirin, its not approved for covid! Stop all pharmacies from filling those prescriptions! Only a vaccine will do! sarc
good thing trump didn’t suggest it, the dems would have passed laws outlawing aspirin, and facebook and twitter would have banned anyone for suggesting it.
I like willow trees
One of the frustrations of COVID has been the ridiculous “dueling studies”. I’m sure some is just being in a rush to get published, some is plain sloppy, poorly designed studies, and some are pushing an agenda. But we are constantly seeing crap. One day, COVID is airborne, the next it’s not. Asymptomatic people are contagious, then they’re not. Masks work, then they don’t. Children are spreaders, then they are not. HCQ works, then it doesn’t, then it does. Remdesivir works, then it doesn’t. XXX variant is more deadly, then it’s not. All of these things have studies to back them up both ways.
This study is no different. Just a few days ago, a study reported: “aspirin does not improve survival for patients hospitalised with COVID-19”. But that was then. Today it does.
Funny enough, a pharma research friend of mine has assured me that aspirin would NOT be approved by today's FDA. Certainly not for OTC. Aspirin is responsible for/contributes to thousands of deaths every year. Most of these deaths are people with stomach ulcers, a "comorbidity" if you will, and the aspirin causes fatal bleeding. Even the "baby aspirin" many people take daily has been implicated.
When COVID-19 started to really get spooled up in this country (circulating by Oct-Nov of 2019) in January/February/March, or maybe it would be more accurate to say the reporting of it in the “news”; there was some question of which NSAIDs were recommended and/or contraindicated.
I came down with what almost certainly was COVID sometime in February of 2020, the consensus that I could find, was Aspirin was OK, but some of the substitutes were not. I needed pain relief for sure. I don’t get sick too often, but the fever was high, and persistent and body aches typical of influenza real strong.
Recall that during the 1918 flu epidemic, doctors were prescribing dosages of whole handfuls at a time of the then relatively new drug called Aspirin. This probably killed a lot of people, because of what’s known as “cytokine storm”, is my understanding.
and to continue to bizarreness of medical advice, will The Truth please stand up?:
in Feb of this year, U of MN stated aspirin was not recommended:
https://covidebm.umn.edu/aspirin
Pharmtimes reports no effect on survival in large Uk ‘Recovery” study:
https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/no_survival_benefit_from_aspirin_in_covid-19_patients_1371417
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