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I'm incredibly ignorant, can someone explain why a drug used to treat arthritis might work against a Coronavirus? I just don't understand the connection/interac

• tbarbugli 7y ago
  it reduces the immune system reaction inflammatory reaction which can be fatal
• J_cst 7y ago
  The linked video has interesting explanation. Perhaps someone more versed may upload to YT to get a robotraslation to everybody's benefit?
• DrNuke 7y ago
  The two doctors in the video say that it interferes with a similar auto-immune reaction that happens at pulmonary level because of the Coronavirus, so that it works.
• autojoechen 7y ago
  One of the ways the virus kills the patient is causing a cytokine storm [0][1]. And tocilizumab suppresses one of the cytokines in humans [2]. 0: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-what-coronavirus-does-to-the-body/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocilizumab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocilizumab
  • listsfrin 7y ago
    "It might be a cytokine storm".
• BjoernKW 7y ago
  Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. The severe cases who contracted the Coronavirus seem to experience an autoimmune reaction towards otherwise healthy lung tissue.
• inferiorhuman 7y ago
  can someone explain why a drug used to treat arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease and not a "oh I'm old and I've worn down all of my cartilage" disease.