No positive effect: next Covid-19-medication by falls in the large-scale study

The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. More than 10 million people have been infected so far worldwide, with the novel Coronavirus, 193.506 in Germany – where it always comes back to local outbreaks.

The drug combination of Lopinavir and Ritonavir will not help against the Coronavirus. You "has no positive effect on patients because of Covid-19 hospitalized wurden", the managers of the large-scale clinical study Recovery in the UK said on Tuesday. Whether the combination patients help with artificial ventilation, is still unclear.

"These preliminary results show that Lopinavir-Ritonavir is not an effective treatment for Covid-19 patients, the ventilator werden", study leader Peter Horby of the Oxford University said.

On the effectiveness of anti-viral Aids drugs to patients on ventilators &quot could, however;no Schlussfolgerung" be drawn. Because of the "Difficulty of verabreichen&quot you the drug; had not been the number of ventilated patients in the context of the klinischesn Tests is sufficient.

The results of the combination of Lopinavir-Ritonavir are the third of the results of the British study. At the beginning of June, the Recovery had shown that hydroxychloroquine has no positive effect on Corona-patients. In mid-June, it has been demonstrated that dexamethasone reduces the mortality of artificially ventilated patients.

To dexamethasone no tested drug effect on Corona has shown-Ill. The U.S.-sponsored drug Remdesivir stands in front of the admission on the European market and is recommended by the European medicines Agency (EMA). A study had shown that it reduces the hospital stay of patients easily, but no effect on mortality.

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