Tocilizumab in Hospitalized Patients with Severe Covid-19 Pneumonia
Dr Ivan O Rosas, Norbert Bräu, Michael Waters, Ronaldo C Go, Bradley D Hunter, Sanjay Bhagani, Daniel Skiest, Mariam S Aziz, Nichola Cooper, Ivor S Douglas, Sinisa Savic, Taryn Youngstein, Lorenzo Del Sorbo, Antonio Cubillo Gracian, David J De La Zerda, Andrew Ustianowski, Min Bao, Sophie Dimonaco, Emily Graham, Balpreet Matharu, Helen Spotswood, Larry Tsai, Atul Malhotra
New England Journal of Medicine, doi:10.1056/nejmoa2028700
cohort studies. Data are needed from randomized, placebo-controlled trials.
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