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I'm a little skeptical of the claims made in that post > If everyone in the world just did one thing differently, talking to their doctor about whether they sh
by nharada 6y ago
I'm a little skeptical of the claims made in that post
> If everyone in the world just did one thing differently, talking to their doctor about whether they should start fluvoxamine or ivermectin after they learned they were COVID positive, our hospitals and ICUs would be nearly empty today and there would be very few “long haulers.”
Yes, there was a preliminary communication released recently in JAMA showing some evidence that Fluvoxamine treatment has clinical promise. You can read it here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2773108 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27731...
The results: "In this randomized trial that included 152 adult outpatients with confirmed COVID-19 and symptom onset within 7 days, clinical deterioration occurred in 0 patients treated with fluvoxamine vs 6 (8.3%) patients treated with placebo over 15 days, a difference that was statistically significant."
Not bad results, but seems like a big jump to suggest that all doctors change their treatment procedures based on this study. I'm interested to see larger studies, especially with longer follow-up durations.
- ImaCake 6y agoYou are right to be skeptical but it looks damn good. There is a clinical trial under way now with n=800. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04668950 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04668950