Oh, no wonder this was so entertaining to read, didn't even catch that this was astral codex. I laughed out loud at Cadegiani et al: > A crazy person decided t

Oh, no wonder this was so entertaining to read, didn't even catch that this was astral codex. I laughed out loud at Cadegiani et al: > A crazy person decided to put his patients on every weird medication he could think of, and 585 subjects ended up on a combination of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and nitazoxanide, with dutasteride and spironolactone "optionally offered" and vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, apixaban, rivaraxoban, enoxaparin, and glucocorticoids "added according to clinical judgment". There was no control group, but the author helpfully designated some random patients in his area as a sort-of-control, and then synthetically generated a second control group based on “a precise estimative based on a thorough and structured review of articles indexed in PubMed and MEDLINE and statements by official government agencies and specific medical societies”.