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·May 25, 2022

Respiratory tract infection

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, RTIs were a leading cause of hospitalization in children, many of whom may go on to develop chronic conditions such as asthma.

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A case study to learn more about the challenge of running clinical studies during pandemic lockdowns

OM Pharma wanted to assess the feasibility of running clinical trials of a treatment to prevent respiratory tract infections (RTIs) during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Nova built a multi-scale in silico model capturing how non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) - such as lockdown or mask-wearing - affect rates of infection with the most common respiratory viruses, and the impact of the prophylactic treatment OM-85 under different NPI scenarios in the context of an upcoming trial.