Health Rounds: Researchers identify best drugs for severe COVID

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -A class of drugs known as Janus kinase, or JAK, inhibitors, which work by slowing down the immune system, should be the first-line therapy for patients hospitalized for COVID-19, researchers reported in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The