E cacy of nasal irrigation and oral rinse with sodium bicarbonate solution on virus clearance for COVID-patients
Ahmed Mostafa, Abdullah Salah Alanazi, Xu Wang, Wang T Zhang, Tairong Wang, Yue Zhang, Rong Zhang, Ye Mao, Junhai Yan, Yiwen Long, Qiaofeng Chen, Xiaojing Li, Huixiang Wang, Shuai Huang, Chao Zhu, Bin Teng
and Wang X ( ) E cacy of nasal irrigation and oral rinse with sodium bicarbonate solution on virus clearance for COVID-patients.
Ethics statement The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by Institutional Review Board of RuiJin Hospital LuWan Branch. The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
Author contributions TW, YZ, RZ, YM, JY, YL, QC, XL, HW, SH, CZ, and BT: methodology, investigation, and data curation. XW: writingoriginal draft, review and editing, conceptualization, supervision, and funding acquisition. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Conflict of interest XW is employed by company Nanning Jiuzhouyuan Biotechnology Co Ltd. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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