Covid-19 clears up rapidly after stool transplant to treat bacterial infection

imperial.ac.uk

1 pointOJFord3 comments

(in 2 patients, one of which was given multiple treatments at the same time)

Very optimistic headline.

Yeah, I did think that too, but submitted verbatim per guidelines.

It is true, as in that is what happened, it just needs to be read as an observation (of n=2 as you say) and is perhaps deliberately ambiguous in also being how you might phrase a full study with high success and rate and reproducibility!

I thought it was interesting though.

The immune system of these patients was fighting two infections at the same time. Once the bacteria was eliminated it could use al its energy on fighting COVID.

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