What Covid treatments will I get?
4
αΉ440αΉ96resolved Jul 19
85%31%
Paxlovid
5%12%
Rest
5%1.7%
Vitamin D
3%1.1%
Zinc lozenges
1%1.7%
Vitamin C
1%1.1%
Hydration (water, green tea, etc)
32%Other
19%
ANTE
Resolves to all Covid treatments I get, probably weighted by importance in my judgement.
Examples could include
- Prescription treatments such as paxlovid, remdesivir, monoclonal antibody, molnupiravir, fluvoxamine
- Non-prescription treatment such as Vitamin D (which I'm already taking), zinc
- Hospitalization
#Personal #Covid
I just tested positive for Covid and have symptoms, see https://manifold.markets/group/jacks-personal-covid-questions/ for more.
Jul 1, 11:53am: Also, for this market I'll exclude treatments specifically for the symptoms (e.g. Tylenol).
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Well, now that I have a post-Paxlovid rebound I'm trying out the zinc lozenges I just ordered. I was worried they'd be horrible in terms of taste, but they seem ok - which makes me worried whether they are actually effective - my research says effectiveness comes from the ionic zinc which tastes very metallic and astringent
To my knowledge, current evidence doesn't show that Vitamin D is effective against Covid, but:
- Vitamin D deficiency is common so taking Vitamin D is good for health in general. Studies found 40% of the US population are Vitamin D deficient, and 5% severely deficient - sources in my blog post https://firstsigma.github.io/covid-treatment-and-isolation
- They're cheap and there's basically no downside
Correction, my current dose is 6000 IU/day up from my usual 3500 IU/day. My main source of Vitamin D is these gummy vitamins: https://smile.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Strength-Vitamin-Packaging/dp/B07XVYYYPS/. I normally take 1/day, upping it to 2/day while I have Covid. I also get 1000 IU/day from a multivitamin.
I do not believe the difference between 5000 and 6000 is significant, but I wouldn't go higher than that because of the risk of side effects.
https://smile.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Strength-Vitamin-Packaging/dp/B07XVYYYPS/Zinc lozenges are also on this list https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b2MvqatvuhsNBcKbr/stuff-i-might-do-if-i-had-covid
I probably would take them if I had them, but I wasn't able to find them in my pharmacy and by the time I got them shipped from an online order it seems like it would be too late to matter. I didn't prioritize acquiring zinc yesterday because I was busy getting Paxlovid which is more important :)
My research is at https://firstsigma.github.io/covid-treatment-and-isolation under "Zinc".
The evidence for it helping with common cold appears moderate, and the effect size large, but the amount of effort involved is also quite nontrivial. The evidence for it helping with Covid appears quite weak, but itβs reasonable to have a fairly strong prior that its effect on the cold and Covid are most likely similar. On the other hand, there are risks of substantial side effects, so not sure if it's worth it on balance.
@jack I haven't heard talk of these since the first week of the pandemic, are these still considered promising?