Standard therapy + quercetin—21; standard therapy—21
In the standard therapy group, 2 patients received a negative test for SARS-CoV-2 and 4 patient’s symptoms partially improved. After 2 weeks, the remaining 5 patients in the quercetin group tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, then while in the standard care group, of the remaining 19 patients, 17 showed a negative result at week 2, one negative result at week 3, and one patient, still positive, died at day 20. On the background of quercetin therapy, LDH, and ferritin levels decreased, CRP and D-dimer.
AK: Data curation, Visualization, Writing—original draft. NI: Data curation, Writing—original draft. IG and VP: Conceptualization, Supervision.
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The study is performed in the framework of the Program for Basic Research in the Russian Federation for a long-term period (2021–2030) project No. [121102900156-6]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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