Popular heartburn medicine being studied as treatment for coronavirus
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Over the past couple of weeks researchers in New York have been studying a new potential treatment for COVID-19. The medicine in question is called famotidine which is the active ingredient in Pepcid, and used to alleviate heartburn. It’s being delivered through an IV in high doses 9 times greater than the typical dose. The drug is being given with the much-talked-about antimalarial hydroxychloroquine.
