Doctors should not use a drug combo strongly pushed by President Trump to treat coronavirus, a National Institutes of Health panel says in new guidelines. Any other experimental drugs should only be tried as part of a clinical trial, the panel says.
The guidelines, published online, are meant to guide doctors, nurses and other medical professionals treating patients with Covid-19 and will be updated in real time as more is learned in fighting the pandemic, the NIH said.
"Currently there is no evidence that ventilator management of patients with ARDS due to Covid-19 should differ from management of patients with viral pneumonia due to influenza or other respiratory viruses," the panel said.
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