A patient infected with Covid-19 grasps the blanket as she tries to cough in the intensive care unit of Lozenets Hospital in Sofia on November 9, 2021. LEHTIKUVA / AFP
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"We can't tell if the drugs are causing these effects, but the statistical analysis is showing significant association. There's power in the numbers," said Marina Sirota, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and a member of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI) at UC San Francisco.
The UCSF-Stanford research team analyzed electronic health records from the Cerner Real World COVID-19 de-identified database, which had information from almost 500,000 patients across the US. This included 83,584 adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between January and September 2020. Of those, 3,401 patients were prescribed SSRIs.