The New York Times says drugs that are extensively prescribed for high blood pressure don’t increase patients’ vulnerability “to coronavirus infection, or to severe illness if they do become infected, researchers reported on Friday.” The researchers’ conclusions “are good news for millions of people who take blood pressure drugs that belong to two classes: ACE inhibitors, which include lisinopril, captopril and other drugs with generic names ending in –pril; and ARBs.” The Times adds that the “research was published Friday by The New England Journal of Medicine, and similar findings from China were published last week in JAMA Cardiology.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.