Drug companies are now claiming that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor can be used as a treatment for swine flu.
A study found that people who were taking these drugs when they caught seasonal flu and had to be hospitalized might be more likely to survive. That does not, of course, mean that statins can cure flu, or that starting on them after catching the flu is of any help whatsoever. But that isn’t stopping the corporate marketing machine.
They are arguing that statins have few downsides, so why not try them, just in case? Of course, those “few downsides” can include muscle pain and weakness, peripheral neuropathy, and heart failure.
Once again, sounds like a “cure” far worse than the disease.