Doctors at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris to conduct clinical tests using nicotine patches on health-care workers as they think coronavirus may involve receptors in the body that respond to nicotine PARIS : Researchers in France will test whether nicotine could be used to treat Covid-19. “It’s an interesting possibility," Health Minister Olivier Veran on France Inter radio. “We’ll know more soon." Doctors at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris observed that few Covid-19 patients hospitalized were smokers.
They also speculated that the new virus may involve receptors in the body that respond to nicotine. To investigate whether nicotine might have some protective mechanism, they will conduct clinical tests using patches, including
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