Medical News Today interviewed Catherine Oldenburg, Sc.D., co-principal investigator in a brand new human trial examining the potential effectiveness of Azithromycin, a common antibiotic, in treating milder cases of COVID-19, which the new coronavirus causes.
Recently, a team of investigators affiliated with the Francis I. Proctor Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), decided to investigate the potential of a common antibiotic — Azithromycin — in treating mild-to-moderate cases of COVID-19 that do not require hospitalization.
The trial — called Azithromycin for COVID-19 Treatment, Investigating Outpatients Nationwide, or ACTION for short — will involve human participants, and the researchers started recruiting on