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> In related news, there have been cases of "severe" forms of Covid-19 among young people with no antecedents, all of them having taken ibuprofen. I'm not sure
by geofft 7y ago
> In related news, there have been cases of "severe" forms of Covid-19 among young people with no antecedents, all of them having taken ibuprofen.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here - are you claiming that all young people with severe cases of COVID-19 (including, for instance, 33-year-old Wenliang Li) took ibuprofen?
Or simply that there exists a small group of people such that all people in that group took ibuprofen, and there are also other young people with severe cases who did not?
Given that standard advice for young people (who are expected not to have severe cases) is to take fever-reducing medication like ibuprofen, I feel like we need a lot more information here before we can turn this correlation into causation.
- throwawayy477 7y agoI don't know what happened to Wenliang Li. What I know is that there have been reports of severe cases among young people without antecedents or pre-existing pathologies where I live and the common thread was that they took ibuprofen. In parallel, there are papers/preprints popping left and right suggesting that ibuprofen's side effects may worsen the symptoms of covid-19. Just google things, it's not hard to find. >Given that standard advice for young people (who are expected not to have severe cases) is to take fever-reducing medication like ibuprofen, I feel like we need a lot more information here before we can turn this correlation into causation. There's other fever-reducing medication that doesn't involve anti-inflammation action. Paracetamol is fine.