AI discovers existing medication that helps elderly with COVID

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8:35a, 11/20/20
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https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/11/17/ai-discovered-an-old-arthritis-drug-that-can-help-elderly-people-survive-covid-19/

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Scientists from Imperial College London and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet gave baricitinib to 83 COVID-19 patients with a median age of 81 who were being treated in hospitals across Italy and Spain.

They found that patients receiving baricitinib had a 71% reduction in mortality compared to the 83 people in the control group who had not taken the drug.

In addition, only 17% of the patients given baricitinib died or required a ventilator, compared to 35% of the patients who received only standard care.

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That's actually really cool. Hope to see a lot more of that, subject to privacy concerns of course. Something big data/computing could really help with, instead of depending on the profit motives/processes of big pharma.
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