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Covid-19 treatment guidelines cut down on drugs, steroids: Details here

The guidelines also ask for rational use of the chest CT scan while stressing on promoting Covid-appropriate behaviour - wearing mask, practising strict hand hygiene, physical distancing

coronavirus treatment, covid-19, vaccine, covid medicines, remdesivir
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The DGHS has clearly advised physicians to exercise extreme caution in using remdesivir as it is only an experimental drug with potential to harm

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
The recent guidelines for management of Covid patients — asymptomatic, mild to moderate and severe — by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) have laid out the dos and don’ts of their treatment with a greater clarity. The government has dropped drugs for treating mild and asymptomatic cases, while cautioning against many other treatments being given to patients — from steroids and anticoagulants to medicines such as remdesivir and tocilizumab. The guidelines also ask for rational use of the chest CT scan while stressing on promoting Covid-appropriate behaviour — wearing mask, practising strict hand hygiene, physical distancing. Drugs that

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