What are the latest covid drugs and treatments?

What are the best treatments for covid-19?Written in cooperation with the World Health Organization, The BMJ’s living systematic review is a meta-analysis comparing the effects of treatments for covid-19,1 using data from more than 400 randomised clinical trials worldwide.At the time of writing, it states that systemic corticosteroids (particularly dexamethasone), interleukin-6 receptor antagonists (such as tocilizumab), and Janus kinase inhibitors (such as baricitinib) reduce mortality and have other benefits in patients with severe covid-19, such as reducing the length of hospital stay and the time needed on a ventilator. It also notes that the antivirals molnupiravir (Lagevrio), nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid), and remdesivir (Veklury) have also been shown to be effective against non-severe covid-19.How has treatment advice changed during the pandemic?What is considered the “best” treatment continues to change as the pandemic progresses. Where previously the primary aim was to prevent death, the world’s exposure to covid-19 now means that outcomes are…
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