Covid items du jour

Things are ​not going well in the ICU at Notre-Dame hospital, and the Jewish General is trying to track down how Covid infected its palliative care unit. Canadian scientists fear an even fiercer general outbreak is coming in March.

There’s big talk about colchicine, a very old drug that the Montreal Heart Institute says looks promising against Covid, but it’s got a ton of side effects and is incompatible with many common Rx drugs: I’ve a friend in Europe, a professor of pharmacology, who says “Colchicine is a tricky drug that is very toxic in only a slight overdose, plus it is easy to increase its blood levels because of use of other drugs.”