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A patient leaves a hospital in France after recovering from a coronavirus. PHOTOGRAPHY: Reuters
Nicotine is another substance that scientists are testing as a possible means of protection against coronavirus, according to Western media. French researchers at the Pieter Salpetriere Hospital in Paris are starting clinical trials with nicotine patches after previous studies have shown that smokers are less affected than K-19. In France itself, only 5% of those admitted to hospital due to the virus are smokers.
According to scientists, nicotine likely prevents the virus from spreading to the body and prevents the extreme immune response that is often seen in K-19 patients. The French hospital team hopes to receive permission from the Ministry of Health at any time to start the experiments. They will be in 3 directions: Stickers will be placed on doctors to see if they are being protected and to patients with moderate symptoms to see if relief will come. The third group are resuscitation patients, who will investigate whether so-called cytokine storms can be prevented, an immune overreaction that many deaths can be prevented.
Doctors warn that this does not mean that people have to rush to smoke. Remember that cigarettes kill 70,000 people a year in France.
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