Ivermectin to be investigated as a possible treatment for COVID-19 in Oxford's PRINCIPLE trial

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32. Don't know about the UK but in the US the standard of care for outpatients is "go home, feel better"

See Figure 1 on page 43 "Therapeutic Management of Non-Hospitalized Adults with Covid-19" in "Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines" at https://files.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/guidelines/covid19treatmentguidelines.pdf

The guidelines do say that if the patient is at high risk for disease progression and hospitalization, then monoclonal antibodies can be administered. Both antiviral drugs and steroids are recommended against.

The treatment of the 80% of symptomatic Covid-19 patients who do not require hospitalization has been pretty neglected by the government. The absence of orthodox treatments is part of the reason why people search around for unorthodox treatments.

And if half the cases are asymptomatic, and if 80% of the symptomatic cases don't require treatment, people might think Covid-19 is not that serious.