1. Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results
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Carlos Guijarro, Farid Zand, Mohamed solyman Kabil, Sven Trelle, Birgitte Tholin, Belén Comeche, Johan Alexander Azañero Haro, Gonzalo Sierra Torres, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Kari Tikkinen, Jean-michel Molina, Atousa Hakamifard, George M Varghese, Oscar Josue Ponce Ponte, Mazin Barry, Pilar Vizcarra, Niccolo Riccardi, Natalia Pérez-Macias, Aynaa AlSharidi, Nelson Lee, Alexandra Binnie, Firouzé BANI-SADR, Beatriz Díaz-Pollán, Aldo Pietro Maggioni, Ilkka Kalliala, Florian Desgranges, Anders Benjamin Kildal, Katerina Nezvalova-Henriksen, Corinne Merle, Andrés Martín Alcántara, Benjamin Gaborit, Daniel Lozano Martín, Antonio Ramos-Martinez, Miguel Villegas-Chiroque, Fredy Orlando Guevara Pulido, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Cormac McCarthy, Thesla Palanee-Phillips, Annalisa Marinosci, Abdullah Assiri, Florent Wallet, Juan Pablo Balbuena, Avik Ray, Francesc Puchades, Rajarao Mesipogu, Marjatta Sinisalo, Jonathan Sterne, Antonio Portolés, Heike Cappel-Porter, Jussi Mustonen, Jeremy Nel, BRUNO MOURVILLIER, María Consuelo Miranda Montoya, Chiara Fanciulli, L Marjukka Myllärniemi, Edinson Dante Meregildo Rodriguez, Alexy Inciarte, Mohamed Hassany, François Danion, Elena Muñez Rubio, Jean-Pierre QUENOT, Esperanza Merino de Lucas, Sheela Godbole, Luis Guillermo Barreto Rocchetti, Katerina Spasovska, William Connors, Kiana Shirani, Umang Agrawal, Srinivas Murthy, Bjorn Blomberg, Vasee Moorthy, Amith Balachandran, Antonio De Pablo Esteban, Mahnaz Amini, Dag Arne Lihaug Hoff, Zeinab Siami, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Heng Gee Lee, Thrilok Chander Bingi, Vijay Krishnan, ANA BELEN RIVAS PATERNA, Eric D'Ortenzio, Samy Zaky, Carlos Arturo Alvarez-Moreno, Alonso Soto, VIKAS MARWAH, Marco Tulio Medina, Zaira R. Palacios-Baena, Jean-Sébastien Hulot, Miguel Angel Hueda Zavaleta, Felipe García, Francisco Fanjul, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), INSERM UMR-S 606, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, PRES Sorbonne Paris-Cité, and Université Paris Denis Diderot, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Michel-Avella, Amandine, Pan, H., Peto, R., Henao-Restrepo, A. -M., Preziosi, M. -P., Sathiyamoorthy, V., Karim, Q. A., Alejandria, M. M., Garcia, C. H., Kieny, M. -P., Malekzadeh, R., Murthy, S., Srinath Reddy, K., Periago, M. R., Hanna, P. A., Ader, F., Al-Bader, A. M., Alhasawi, A., Allum, E., Alotaibi, A., Alvarez-Moreno, C. A., Appadoo, S., Asiri, A., Aukrust, P., Barratt-Due, A., Bellani, S., Branca, M., Cappel-Porter, H. B. C., Cerrato, N., Chow, T. S., Como, N., Eustace, J., Garcia, P. J., Godbole, S., Gotuzzo, E., Griskevicius, L., Hamra, R., Hassan, M., Hassany, M., Hutton, D., Irmansyah, I., Jancoriene, L., Kirwan, J., Kumar, S., Lennon, P., Lopardo, G., Lydon, P., Magrini, N., Maguire, T., Manevska, S., Manuel, O., Mcginty, S., Medina, M. T., Mesa Rubio, M. L., Miranda-Montoya, M. C., Nel, J., Nunes, E. P., Perola, M., Portoles, A., Rasmin, M. R., Raza, A., Rees, H., Reges, P. P. S., Rogers, C. A., Salami, K., Salvadori, M. I., Sinani, N., Sterne, J. A. C., Stevanovikj, M., Tacconelli, E., Tikkinen, K. A. O., Trelle, S., Zaid, H., Rottingen, J. -A., Swaminathan S., &, Luzzati, R, Di Bella, S, Doctoral Programme in Population Health, Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine, HUS Abdominal Center, Department of Surgery, Urologian yksikkö, South Carelia Social and Health care District Eksote, HUS Heart and Lung Center, Department of Medicine, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, UCL - SSS/IREC/LTAP - Louvain Centre for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, and UCL - (SLuc) Service de médecine interne générale
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The authors report interim results of the WHO Solidarity trial of four repurposed antiviral drugs - remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon beta-1a - in patients hospitalized with Covid-19. Effects on overall mortality, initiation of ventilation, and duration of hospital stay are compared. Background World Health Organization expert groups recommended mortality trials of four repurposed antiviral drugs - remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon beta-1a - in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Methods We randomly assigned inpatients with Covid-19 equally between one of the trial drug regimens that was locally available and open control (up to five options, four active and the local standard of care). The intention-to-treat primary analyses examined in-hospital mortality in the four pairwise comparisons of each trial drug and its control (drug available but patient assigned to the same care without that drug). Rate ratios for death were calculated with stratification according to age and status regarding mechanical ventilation at trial entry. Results At 405 hospitals in 30 countries, 11,330 adults underwent randomization; 2750 were assigned to receive remdesivir, 954 to hydroxychloroquine, 1411 to lopinavir (without interferon), 2063 to interferon (including 651 to interferon plus lopinavir), and 4088 to no trial drug. Adherence was 94 to 96% midway through treatment, with 2 to 6% crossover. In total, 1253 deaths were reported (median day of death, day 8; interquartile range, 4 to 14). The Kaplan-Meier 28-day mortality was 11.8% (39.0% if the patient was already receiving ventilation at randomization and 9.5% otherwise). Death occurred in 301 of 2743 patients receiving remdesivir and in 303 of 2708 receiving its control (rate ratio, 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.81 to 1.11; P=0.50), in 104 of 947 patients receiving hydroxychloroquine and in 84 of 906 receiving its control (rate ratio, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.89 to 1.59; P=0.23), in 148 of 1399 patients receiving lopinavir and in 146 of 1372 receiving its control (rate ratio, 1.00; 95% CI, 0.79 to 1.25; P=0.97), and in 243 of 2050 patients receiving interferon and in 216 of 2050 receiving its control (rate ratio, 1.16; 95% CI, 0.96 to 1.39; P=0.11). No drug definitely reduced mortality, overall or in any subgroup, or reduced initiation of ventilation or hospitalization duration. Conclusions These remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon regimens had little or no effect on hospitalized patients with Covid-19, as indicated by overall mortality, initiation of ventilation, and duration of hospital stay. (Funded by the World Health Organization; ISRCTN Registry number, ; ClinicalTrials.gov number, .)
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- 2020
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