{"id":160,"date":"2020-05-11T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-05-12T05:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T05:09:57","slug":"08-may-2020-hydroxychloroquine-addition-of-zinc-to-hcq-and-azt-proves-to-be-more-efficacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/08-may-2020-hydroxychloroquine-addition-of-zinc-to-hcq-and-azt-proves-to-be-more-efficacious\/","title":{"rendered":"(08 May 2020)- Hydroxychloroquine- addition of zinc to HCQ, and AZT proves to be more efficacious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p><strong>Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.02.20080036\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.02.20080036<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a retrospective observational study to compare hospital outcomes among patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc versus hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone, it was observed that zinc sulfate increased the frequency of patients being discharged home, and decreased the need for ventilation, admission to the ICU, and mortality or transfer to hospice for patients who were never admitted to the ICU. This presents an in vitro evidence suggesting zinc sulfate may be efficacious against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.02.20080036 In a retrospective observational study to compare hospital outcomes among patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc versus hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone, it&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/08-may-2020-hydroxychloroquine-addition-of-zinc-to-hcq-and-azt-proves-to-be-more-efficacious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(08 May 2020)- Hydroxychloroquine- addition of zinc to HCQ, and AZT proves to be more efficacious&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow"},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[10,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}