Doctors are mixing a new drug with Coca Cola to help cure coronavirus patients

[Chris Smith]

• Coronavirus treatment of severe cases is still problematic, but doctors may have found an effective drug that can reduce the inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients who develop respiratory complications.
• A drug used to treat some types of blood cancer was mixed with Coca Cola and administered to patients receiving oxygen therapy, including mechanical ventilation.
• Calquence worked best on coronavirus patients who did not require ventilators, but it was also somewhat effective on intubated patients.
• The therapy that has the potential of curing severe COVID-19 cases will move to Phase 2 trials.

Doctors are studying several drugs in COVID-19 treatment protocols, and researchers are advancing with vaccines and new drug trials as you read this. But only one of these drugs is currently proven to work against the novel coronavirus, Gilead Science's remdesivir. There are huge caveats when it comes to remdesivir therapies, however. First of all, supply is running low and Gilead won’t be able to meet demand anytime soon. Even worse, the medicine is only effective with COVID-19 patients experiencing mild to moderate versions of the disease. Doctors still have to figure out therapies that can help in severe cases, which are the most dangerous ones. They can lead to respiratory complications, as patients often need oxygen therapy as well as intubation and ventilation. The immune response can get out of control and lead to multiple organ failure and even death.

Focusing on the blood could turn out to be a key strategy in treating the disease. Doctors have shown that therapies based on plasma can help improve the conditions of severe cases dramatically. Other researchers found that adding blood thinners to COVID-19 treatment can prevent clotting and improve the health of patients. Doctors from the UK are looking at T lymphocyte levels in the blood, which can mark a severe COVID-19 evolution and offer a way to prevent them. More recently, oncologists treating blood cancer discovered that the use of a drug called Calquence can be a pivotal addition to coronavirus treatment.

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