Published time: 27 March 2020
Authors: Garret A. FitzGerald
Keywords: Drug, Covid-19, pandemic, medicine
Abstract
As pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to accelerate, the French Health Minister, Olivier Véran, has confused matters by claiming on Twitter that anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or cortisone could aggravate the infection (1). However, scientific evidence does not indicate that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) consumption puts patients who otherwise might have mild or asymptomatic infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—the virus that causes COVID-19—at risk of more severe disease. People taking NSAIDs for other reasons should not stop doing so for fear of increasing their COVID-19 risk.
Misguided drug advice for COVID-19
Reference: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6485/1434.1/tab-pdf
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