Tocilizumab Tangle: Panic frenzy to buy COVID drug, but effectiveness yet to be proved?
August 20, 2020
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as posted by the channelICMR prescribed drug Tocilizumab for fighting the COVID virus has caused people to form long queues. The effectiveness of this protocol drug has yet not be ascertained. Patients are pressurising the doctors to prescribe this drug. Kin is ready to wait for 2-3 hours to buy the drug.
Mirror Now's Disha says the drug's demand is rising even though its effectiveness has not been probed. Experts say this drug is not very helpful in fighting the coronavirus. Panic has spread across the country to procure the drug though the shortage is being faced in the market. People are spending up to Rs 33000 a vial for this drug with some patients needing two to three vials.
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