{"id":26624,"date":"2021-06-06T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=26624"},"modified":"2021-06-06T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:02:18","slug":"iota-carrageenan-nasal-spray-results-of-test-in-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2021\/iota-carrageenan-nasal-spray-results-of-test-in-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iota-Carrageenan Nasal Spray: results of test in AR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-print <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.04.13.21255409v1.full.pdf\">Efficacy of a nasal spray containing Iota-Carrageenan in the prophylaxis of COVID-19 in hospital personnel dedicated to patients care with COVID-19 disease <\/a> appeared at medrxiv.org way back in April, but I missed it!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The incidence of COVID-19 differs significantly between those receiving the nasal spray with Iota-Carrageenan (2 of 196 [1\u00c2\u00b70 %]) and those receiving placebo (10 of 198  [5\u00c2\u00b70  %])  (Odds  Ratio  0.19  (95%  confidence  interval  0.05  to  0.77;  p=0.03). Business day losses censored at day 21 were lower in I-C group (0.5% and 2.0%; p&lt;  0.0001).  In  sensitivity  analysis  in  which  we  removed  from  our  analyses individuals  who  presented  symptoms  before  7  days  after  randomization,  the  risk reduction was 95% (95% CI, 6.0% to 99.7%), p= 0.04. OR: 0.05 (95% CI, 0.003 to 0.9), p=0.04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update<\/b> I should also mention the nasal spray antibody potential treatment Russel alerted me to. It&#8217;s reported in Nature!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01481-2\">Antibody-laden nasal spray could provide COVID protection \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and treatment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-print Efficacy of a nasal spray containing Iota-Carrageenan in the prophylaxis of COVID-19 in hospital personnel dedicated to patients care with COVID-19 disease appeared at medrxiv.org way back in April, but I missed it! The incidence of COVID-19 differs significantly between those receiving the nasal spray with Iota-Carrageenan (2 of 196 [1\u00c2\u00b70 %]) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2021\/iota-carrageenan-nasal-spray-results-of-test-in-ar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iota-Carrageenan Nasal Spray: results of test in AR.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26627,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions\/26627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}