Posted on 03/19/2022 9:11:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An experimental treatment greatly reduced the risk of hospitalization and emergency room visits in people who contracted COVID-19, according to the maker of the drug and investigators running a clinical trial.
California-based Eiger BioPharmaceuticals and investigators running the TOGETHER trial say (pdf) that the treatment, Peginterferon Lambda, cut the risk of needing hospital care by 50 percent and death by 60 percent in a phase 3 trial measuring the results through the 28th day after receiving the treatment.
A single injection of the treatment was compared to placebo in a trial in Brazil featuring 1,936 patients who had mild or moderate COVID-19 and were designated as high-risk for progression to more serious forms of the illness.
Approximately 84 percent of the patients were vaccinated. The trial stretched into the period of time after the Omicron virus variant became dominant in many countries around the world.
Of the patients who received Lambda, 2.7 percent were hospitalized or had visited an emergency room, versus 5.6 percent of patients who received a placebo, the company said in a release. There was one death in the group that received the treatment and four in the cohort that got a placebo.
Lambda appeared more successful when given within three days of symptom onset, according to the results.
“These data demonstrate that a single subcutaneous injection of Lambda has the potential to be a convenient, ‘one and done’ treatment to reduce the severity of COVID-19, reducing hospitalizations and death—even in a vaccinated population,” David Cory, Eiger’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
Eiger plans to submit a request for emergency use authorization to U.S. regulators in the near future.
“Lambda has demonstrated a reduction of risk in COVID-19-related hospitalizations or deaths in this clinical study in a predominantly vaccinated population, something that no other investigational drug has achieved—this is a game-changing event,” added Edward Mills, a professor at McMaster University in Canada who is leading the study.
Lambda is a type of interferon that is designed to stimulate an immune response to COVID-19. Interferons are a type of protein produced by humans in response to virus infection. Type III interferons like Lambda are known as the first line of defense upon infection, researchers have said, versus a second line of defense provided by type I interferons.
The trial started in 2021 and is also examining the efficacy and safety of Fluvoxamine, an anti-depressant.
Bkmk for future reference.
Or just take HCQ and Ivermectin. 🙄
Supposedly the “vaccines” performed well in trials too.
The medical research community has told so many lies and sold so many experimental gene therapies as safe, and so many people have died, why would we trust anything they produce now?
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