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greenjar_01

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Thu Mar 26, 2020, 04:47 PM Mar 2020

Wired Article tracks Claims and Misinformation on Ibuprofen and COVID-19

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https://www.wired.com/story/the-ibuprofen-debate-reveals-the-danger-of-covid-19-rumors/

TWO WEEKS AGO, national and world health authorities—and armchair experts and worried well-meaning people—were warning anyone concerned about Covid-19 to avoid ibuprofen. Now, facing contradictory evidence, they’ve backed off that claim.

But the brief online furor over whether it’s safe to use the fever reducer, and the attention paid to the claim that it might be dangerous, are important, both for how people protect themselves in this pandemic and also for how we consume news about it.

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Wired Article tracks Claims and Misinformation on Ibuprofen and COVID-19 (Original Post) greenjar_01 Mar 2020 OP
World Health Organization backs call to avoid ibuprofen for coronavirus By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS MA magicarpet Mar 2020 #1
From the article you're commenting on greenjar_01 Mar 2020 #2
Coronavirus and ibuprofen: WHO addresses the warning Lisa Kashinsky PUBLISHED: March 20, 2020 at 6:1 magicarpet Mar 2020 #3
Well, there you go greenjar_01 Mar 2020 #4

magicarpet

(13,941 posts)
1. World Health Organization backs call to avoid ibuprofen for coronavirus By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS MA
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:05 PM
Mar 2020

World Health Organization backs call to avoid ibuprofen for coronavirus
By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS   MARCH 21, 2020 08:31

The announcement supported a recent statement by the French health minister that ibuprofen may worsen the effects of COVID-19 and should be avoided.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that people with COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after concerns were raised by French officials that it may make the virus more harmful.
A recent study in The Lancet medical journal, theorizing that an enzyme boosted by ibuprofen could enable and exacerbate COVID-19 infections, led France's Health Minister Olivier Veran to suggest via social media that the medicine be avoided.

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/World-Health-Organization-backs-call-to-avoid-ibuprofen-for-coronavirus-621408

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
2. From the article you're commenting on
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:13 PM
Mar 2020

"In the swirl of panic over Covid-19, some national health authorities supported the French advice, and others pushed back against it. At the end of last week, both the European Medicines Agency (the European Union’s equivalent of the FDA) and the World Health Organization tried to tamp down the furor. They both weighed in to say there is no reason to stop using ibuprofen to home-treat fever from Covid-19."

Here's the actual WHO tweet and link disclaiming any advice against the use of Ibuprofem. Looks like your Jerusalem Post writer has it wrong, or several days out of date. The whole Wired article shows how the Lancet commentary (not a peer reviewed article) is mainly speculative, and the French Health ministries claims have to be understood in the context of a longer French problem with ibuprofen. The Wired article is really a good antidote to the kinds of (mis)information trafficked in the article you've posted.






magicarpet

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3. Coronavirus and ibuprofen: WHO addresses the warning Lisa Kashinsky PUBLISHED: March 20, 2020 at 6:1
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:24 PM
Mar 2020

Coronavirus and ibuprofen: WHO addresses the warning

Lisa Kashinsky
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2020 at 6:11 a.m. | UPDATED: March 23, 2020 at 2:06 p.m.


Batting down rumors, the World Health Organization says it does not recommend against the use of ibuprofen to treat COVID-19 symptoms — though medical experts say that until more research is conducted it’s better to start with acetominophen for pain and fever reduction.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-and-ibuprofen-who-addresses-the-warning/amp/#aoh=15852574516134&_ct=1585257479584&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
4. Well, there you go
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:26 PM
Mar 2020
World Health Organization says it does not recommend against the use of ibuprofen

Thanks for recognizing
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