Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and taking aspirin were nearly half as likely to require mechanical ventilation as those with COVID-19 not taking the drug, according to a retrospective, observational cohort study of adult patients.
The patients were admitted to multiple hospitals in the United States between March 2020 and July 2020.
The study’s principal investigator, Jonathan Chow, MD, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at George