How to stay alive with Coronavirus? Hypnotic Drug introduced by State of Hawaii

The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is one of the leading medical education institutions in the United States and may have found a drug that minimized the deadly outcome of Coronavirus.

Treatment for insomnia consists of improving sleep habits, behavior therapy, and identifying and treating underlying causes, maybe also a treatment to minimize the deadly outcome with COVID-19.

The State of Hawaii COVID-19 joint Information Center Daily Digest released results of a study today.

Twenty researchers including from the University of Hawaii A. Burns School of Medicine Dr. Youping Deng found beneficial effects of hypnotics on clinical outcomes in the management of COVID-19 patients. The research team, which was co-led by a researcher from the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, reviewed the charts of 323 COVID-19 patients in hospitals from Jan. 8 – Feb. 20, 2020. A quarter of the patients were given a hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia, and 77 of the 82 had better clinical outcomes and were discharged. Of the five who had unfavorable outcomes, only one died.

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