id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-337677-ktktqs7b Pereda, R. Therapeutic effectiveness of interferon alpha 2b treatment for COVID-19 patient recovery 2020-08-04 .txt text/plain 3397 212 54 Patients received therapy as per the Cuban COVID protocol that included a combination of oral antivirals (lopinavir/ritonavir and chloroquine) with intramuscular or subcutaneous administration of IFN alpha-2b The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients discharged from hospital, secondary was the case fatality rate and several outcomes related to time variables were also evaluated. Two groups of individuals were admitted to the hospital, according to the case classification criteria defined in the Cuban protocol: 1) people with suspected COVID-19 due to clinical respiratory symptoms, such as fever, fatigue, cough, headache, shortness of breath and nasal discharge in the last 14 days; 2) subjects who had contact with a patient with confirmed or is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint ./cache/cord-337677-ktktqs7b.txt ./txt/cord-337677-ktktqs7b.txt