Golikova announced a shortage in the regions of drugs from a cytokine storm

A number of Russian regions lack drugs to treat cytokine storms, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the government. The transcript from the meeting was published on the Kremlin website.

“A number of regions do not have enough drugs to treat the cytokine storm,” she said, without specifying which regions she was talking about. Also, according to her, the Ivanovo and Novosibirsk regions, the Republic of Ingushetia “should pay attention” to the stocks of interferons and antipyretic drugs, and a number of regions to anticoagulants, she added.

In addition, Golikova noted that hospitals in the Tver region need to replenish stocks of antiviral drugs and immunoglobulins.

According to the methodological recommendations of the Ministry of Health for the treatment and prevention of coronavirus, several groups appear among the drugs that are used in the cytokine storm. Including interleukin inhibitors (anakinra), monoclonal antibodies (netakimab, olokizumab, levilimab, tocilizumab, sarilumab and canakinumab, etc.), glucocorticosteroids (dexamethasone, methylprednisolone) and others. Golikova did not report the shortage of which drugs in question.