Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD 0kale/acc 🇺🇸 Profile picture
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Sep 8 20 tweets 7 min read
Finding myself intrigued by the azelastine covid prevention trial, I decided to take it for a ride.
Yes sure, it has antiviral effects in vitro but do the numbers actually check out ?
Here is what I found (tl;dr version the numbers do check out, but the study needs replication) Starting point: the astelazine nasal spray randomized trial that showed that application of the spray for 3 times a day may cut the risk of COVID19 PCR confirmed infection by 71%
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…Image