Could existing drugs be used against COVID-19?

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Three types of medications approved for other clinical purposes may reduce the inflammatory symptoms caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, an UdeM-led study finds.

Several drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could potentially be used to alleviate the symptoms of COVID-19, biomedical researchers at Université de Montréal have found….

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2020/12/16/could-existing-drugs-be-used-against-covid-19/

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