Pneumonia after bacterial or viral infection preceded or followed by radiation exposure -- a reanalysis of older radiobiological data and implications for low dose radiotherapy for COVID-19 pneumonia

no code implementations • 6 Aug 2020 • Mark P Little, Wei zhang, Roy van Dusen, Nobuyuki Hamada

For 7 studies that evaluated post-inoculation radiation exposure (more relevant to LDRT for COVID-19 pneumonia) the results are heterogeneous, with 2 studies showing a significant increase (p<0. 001) and another showing a significant decrease (p<0. 001) in mortality associated with radiation exposure.