Retrospective database analysis of 56 mild COVID-19 patients, all treated with vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc, comparing ivermectin + doxycycline (n=14), AZ (n=13), HCQ (n=14), and SOC (n=15), finding that all groups recover quickly, and there was no significant difference between the groups. Subject to the usual limitation of a database study, very small size, and limited evaluation of patients.
This is the
43rd of 99 COVID-19 controlled studies for ivermectin, which collectively show efficacy with
p<0.0000000001 (1 in 2 sextillion).
46 studies are RCTs, which show efficacy with
p=0.00000014.
This study is excluded in the after exclusion results of meta
analysis:
no serious outcomes reported and fast recovery in treatment and control groups, there is little room for a treatment to improve results.
This study includes
HCQ and ivermectin.
relative time to clinical response of wellbeing, 5.6% lower, relative time 0.94, p = 0.87, treatment 14, control 15, primary outcome.
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Roy et al., 12 Mar 2021, retrospective, database analysis, India, preprint, 5 authors, dosage not specified, this trial uses multiple treatments in the treatment arm (combined with doxycycline) - results of individual treatments may vary.
Outcome of Different Therapeutic Interventions in Mild COVID-19 Patients in a Single OPD Clinic of West Bengal: A Retrospective study
Dr Sayak Roy, Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Santanu K Tripathi, Shatavisa Mukherjee, Kingshuk Bhattacharjee
doi:10.1101/2021.03.08.21252883
Introduction: With over 87,273,380 cases being reported and 1,899,440 deaths worldwide as of 9th January 2021, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become the worst-hit pandemic till date. Every day clinicians are bombarded with many new treatment options that claim to be better than the others.
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