RE: Another huge tick19 Aug 2020 23:15
‘Meta-analysis of 3 sets of studies with 990, 454, and 1480 patients receiving Type I interferon therapyrevealed that there were no significant associations between receiving Type I interferon therapy, comparedto standard of care, andICU admittance, requiring mechanical ventilation, or developing a severe or critical case of COVID-19, respectively (p>0.05; Figure 3B; Figure 3C; Figure 3D).[28-36]The analyses included 97, 167, and 537 control patients, respectively. The data exhibitedvery high heterogeneity in cases of ICU admittance and disease severity (both I2>90%), but relatively lowin the case of mechanical ventilation (I2=12%). In the analyses of the 803 and 1415 Type I interferon receiving patients, intervention therapy wasrespectively associated with higher odds of being discharged (OR, 1.89; 95% CI, 1.00 –3.59; p=0.05; N=895; Figure 3E), and significantly lower odds of mortality (OR, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.04–0.85); p=0.03, N=1906; Figure 3A), when compared to standard of care. The studies included in these analyses enlisted 92 and 491 control patients, respectively. Discharge data exhibited very low heterogeneity (I2=0%), while mortality data demonstrated very high heterogeneity (I2=90%).’
I think this as good as confirms that c ‘Administering an IV formulation to strengthen the body's own IFN beta production - its first line of defence against viral infection - provides optimal exposure to the lung vasculature, which is what we believe critically ill patients need.(ref: RNS 18.8.20)’ with the key word being critical. It confirms what Traumakine is all about, the probability that the treatment leads to a significant reduction in mortality from those suffering ADRS.
That’s good enough for me, it derisks the forthcoming results significantly and provides provides justification as to why IFN-B1a is being included in the major COVID trials worldwide.
The PDF makes very nice bedtime reading:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.10.20172189v1.full.pdf+html