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Efficacy and safety of adding fluoxetine to the treatment regimen of hospitalized patients with non‐critical COVID‐19 pneumonia: A double‐blind randomized, placebo‐controlled clinical trial

Faranak Sedighi, M. Zarghami, Fatemeh Alizadeh Arimi, M. Moosazadeh, S. Ala, R. Ghasemian, Hossein Mehravaran, Forouzan Elyasi

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2023

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Abstract

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are considered the drugs, whose effectiveness in viral pandemics has been studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate of adding fluoxetine to the treatment regimen of patients with COVID‐19 pneumonia.

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