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Common asthma drug if that's all you're after: the steroid budesonide Clickbait shmickbait

• rsynnott 6y ago
  I'm not sure how that's clickbait? It's useful context for the vast, vast majority of people who have no idea what budesonide is; putting that in the headline would be quite unhelpful.
  • tom_mellior 6y ago
    "Common asthma drug budesonide cuts Covid-19 etc." would be more informative than leaving the word out. I have never heard of budesonide before, but this way I would know that it's a common asthma drug.
    • tempestn 6y ago
      It is also possible to read beyond just the headline though; not all information has to be crammed in there. As it was, the article's headline was already slightly too long for HN, so I shortened 'hospitalization risk' to just 'hospitalization'.
  • corobo 6y ago
    I have asthma, I clicked to see if it was the medication I'm on. It was not. I lost interest in the article.