Lactoferrin in Covid-19 Hospitalized Patients

TRIAL LAC is a randomized double-blind non profit multicenter study with a nutritional product: bovine lactoferrin - Mosiac 200 mg. the hypothesis to be confirmed is that bovine LF, administered daily orally in addition to standard therapies for 1 month to hospitalized patients with Covid-19 infection, can be useful to limit the severity, progression of the disease, shorten the time of swabs negativization (i.e. time required to eliminate the virus) and to reduce the morbidity load associated with it. Patient recruitment will involve 2 centers in Italy: Ospedale degli Infermi (Ponderano, Biella) and AOU Maggiore della Carità (Novara). The subjects enrolled will be randomized to two Groups: Group A (experimental arm) - Standard Anti-Covid-19 Therapy + Oral Administration of Bovine Lactoferrin (fixed dose 800 mg / day) for 30 days Group B (control arm) - Standard anti-Covid-19 therapy + Placebo administration (identical capsule with the same amount as an inert compound, starch of corn powder), according to the same pattern of use. It should be specified that the study treatment and placebo will be administered in addition to the standard care in place, and therefore in addition to all the pharmacological treatments currently used in clinical hospital practice against Covid-19.