New York hospitals have begun an experiment to see if famotidine is effective in treating corona • "This is a generic and common drug; if the results are positive - this is in line"

New York hospitals have started an experiment in which Corona patients are given a heartburn antidote to see if it helps fight the virus - CNN has released.

"Preliminary results of the famotidine clinical trial could be out in the coming weeks," said Dr. Kevin Tracy, president of the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research used by 23 New York City hospitals. So far, 187 patients have been enrolled in the clinical trial, ultimately aiming to register trial of 1,200 patients, in order to obtain reliable results.

"there are many examples in the history of medicine in which the drug was designed for one purpose, and it turns out that it has an impact on other disease," said Tracy. He said that, if revealed that famotidine does know how to deal Corona "This Great achievement, as it will be easy to use instant medicine on a wide scale. It is a generic drug, it is plentiful in the market and it will not happen, "he explained.

However, he is reluctant." We do not know if it has an effect. People are hoping for any new development that will give them hope, and we need to do this clinical trial. "

He said the patients taking the study were taking intravenous doses about nine times the recommended dosage for heartburn. "But I really do not advise going to the pharmacy and taking packages of heartburn medication, that is not the intention," he said.

Tracy and his colleagues got the idea for a study after hospitals in China found that patients who took the drug regularly for heartburn did respond better than patients who didn't take it. Dr. Michael Kahlan, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital who worked with corona virus patients in China, noted that people with lower incomes survived longer than their wealthier counterparts - who also had heartburn. When Kahlan and the Chinese doctors began investigating They found that many low-income patients took famotidine, which is a relatively inexpensive drug, while the richer patients tended to take other, more expensive anti-heartburn drugs, and

Tracy said that in addition to research in Chinese patients, Florida labs used a computer model to make Which may fight the corona virus, and phenotidine appeared At the top of the list.