Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Queensland University and Oxford University Medical researchers investigating why asthma sufferers were “under-represented” in severe Covid cases have completed a clinical trial of Budesonide asthma inhalers. According to researchers the randomised trial was stopped early, because the results were so remarkable, the researchers did not believe it ethical to deny treatment to placebo patients.
Over-the-counter inhalers suppress severe COVID symptoms, trial finds
By Stuart Layt
February 10, 2021 — 11.18am…
QUT associate professor Dan Nicolau, one of the lead researchers on the trial at the University of Oxford, said the results showed the method was extremely effective at preventing severe COVID-19 symptoms.
“When we first began the trial back in March [2020], we were hoping for 50 per cent reduction [in risk of developing serious symptoms], which itself would have been very high,” he said.
“We got 90 per cent, which even with only a few hundred people is off the charts.
“And it’s not just the overall result – their temperatures are less, they get less fever, and they recover faster.”
Professor Nicolau said they realised in the early stages of the pandemic that people with asthma were under-represented in severe and fatal cases of COVID-19.
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The randomised trial ended up looking at 146 patients, who were given regular doses of either corticosteroid budesonide via an inhaler, or a placebo.
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Read more: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/over-the-counter-inhalers-suppress-severe-covid-symptoms-trial-finds-20210210-p5716m.html
If other teams confirm this finding, it is a remarkable breakthrough. And confirmation should be very straightforward, given the widespread availability of this inhaler.
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This is big news that you almost certainly won’t see on the “news”. That is unless it becomes too big to censor. Then you will see the “news” bring in all kinds of supposed experts to try and deny it just as they did with HCQ.
An inhaler made by Astra Zeneca (Symbicort) is A common inhaler for asthma and COPD it contains budesonide and formoterol. I use it 2 puffs morning and evening for chronic asthma. It’s not exactly cheap, $432.00 per puffer at Walmart, $354.89 with GoodRX discount. Budesonide is sold over the counter in Rhinocort Allergy Spray (Nasal spray) for roughly $19.00
Astra Zeneca fabricates this product in Canada, and it’s exported to the US. But Canadians need a prescription .
It would cost me $200 to ask my private physician for a prescription over the phone, with only the faintest chance of success. Even with a prescription, the pharmacist can refuse to fill it without a label-compliant diagnosis.
The four million-odd Quebeckers who don’t have a family physician and can’t afford a private one don’t have a snowflake’s chance in hell of getting this from a walk in clinic.
The pandemic appears increasingly to be a global cattle drive designed to fleece humanity to the max, and perhaps worse. Hopefully the end goal is not a ‘buffalo jump’.
Smokers are also underrepresented. Turns out smoke kills the virus in the throat. Same way smoke kills bacteria on bacon.
yeah quite a bit on smokers NOT being very represented in UK the few who were didnt have great survival rates but they really were the rarer cases
then suddenl;y
all went quiet….
hmm?
Dr. Mercola also claims miraculous results by inhaling nebulised food-grade hydrogen peroxide 0.1%.
Going directly to the heart (well, pulmonary) of the problem seems to make sense.
But it’s cheap and too close to “injecting disinfectant” or whatever Bad Orange Man was alleged to have have mused.
A west Texas doctor, Richard Bartlett, has been successfully prescribing budesonide as a COVID treatment for many months.
script only so now watch the docs refuse
why do I say that?
because I care for an elderly person with severe COPD her GP will NOT give her a script for nebuliser version steroid found useful which IS pbs ok, keeps palming her off with oral steroids that just arent working.
the majority of our GPs need a good kick in the ass re Covid treatments
some idiots proposing to give the vax at chemists n clinics not at docs
so when someone keels over in a chemist whos going to be able to save em?
“That’s why they have the EMS shows on telly, so people know what to do. I would loosen their necktie and tell em: learn to code.”
As a former chemist, I assemble that remark!
i have taken budesonide for many years, it is prescribed in the uk as a preventer, although i used it successfully as a emergency treatment two weeks ago.
its branded in the uk as duo resp spiromax.
the packaging and dispenser are different to the above photo.
last spring the doctor changed the above prescription for symbicort which among other things contains budesonide.with no explanation.
two weeks ago i could no breath properly ventolin did not work which is a emergency treatment for COPD and asthma.
i remembered seeing a youtube video of a north American doctor who noticed people who he prescribed budesonide too did not seem to get covid so he prescribed it too covid suffers in his practice, the results were almost instantaneous, with symptoms of covid diminished or gone completely.
i took 4 puffs of budesonide and within mins i was feeling a lot better, i have not relapsed into this very sever state , i cannot state enough how bad i was feeling, normally in COPD yyou have a gradual loss capacity with is cured with Ventolin.
did i have covid i dont know , the symptoms were certainly covid ,
as above the use of budesonide has been noticed far sooner by the American doctor and probably a lot more frontline doctors ,yet ive never seen it mentioned as a treatment in the uk or even a possible treatment, till this oxford trial.
only today on the bbc it was announced that asthma suffers would go on the priority list for vaccination, almost like the counter narrative again by the bbc and their masters.
i will not take the vaccine , although it has been offered to me, i 3 packs of duo resp left. i am not going to be a test subject for these desperate quacks playing politics and agendas .
The only word of caution is that asthmatics tend to be younger so unless the data was adjusted for age this result may be a little skewed. COVID deaths tend to overwhelmingly occur in those 70 and over whilst asthma is a problem predominantly for those under 70.
If any treatment can reduce the severity of covid 19 by more than 50%, then it becomes LESS dangerous than the HxNx flu. So far early treatment with chloroquine, ivermectin, and now low dose pulmonary steroids all seem to have some efficacy. Add vitamin D prophylaxis, and the whole story falls apart.
I can’t help but wonder if this will be widely publicized or if it will be squashed.
Does anyone know of any similar information regarding other, similar, asthma treatments?
Didn’t expect there would be so many on here that believe this corona farce.
Since not all asthmatics will be on Budesonide, it seems reasonable to look at the ones who are on a variety of inhaled steroids. Asthmatics and COPD sufferers are grossly under-represented in the deaths and serious illness stats.