Study from Israel on Drug Treatment for Covid

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volunteers over the age of 18 who were diagnosed with coronavirus and staying in state-run COVID-19 hotels were divided into two groups: 50% received the drug, and 50% received a placebo, according to their weight. They were given the pills for three days in a row, an hour before a meal.

volunteers were tested using a standard nasopharyngeal swab PCR test with the goal of evaluating whether there was a reduction in viral load by the sixth day – the third day after termination of the treatment. They were swabbed every two days.

72% of volunteers treated with the drug tested negative for the virus by day six. In contrast, only 50% of those who received the placebo tested negative.

IN ADDITION, the study looked at culture viability, meaning how infectious the patients were, and found that only 13% of those patients who received the drug were infectious after six days, compared with 50% of the placebo group – almost four times as many.

Only five patients were referred to hospitals, with four of them being in the placebo arm. One patient who received the drug went to the hospital complaining of shortness of breath on the day of recruitment. He continued with the drug treatment and was sent back to the hotel a day later in good condition.

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