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Martin Landray

7 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read

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Great summary of treatments for hospitalised patients with COVID-19 @rupert_pearse

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1312699…

My take on this:

Dexamethasone improves survival.
Remdesivir shortens time to recovery.
Hydroxychloroquine & lopinavir are ineffective.

** we know because the clinical trials have been done**

Tocilizumab, Convalescent plasma, and neutralising antibodies look promising

** we will know because we are doing the clinical trials**

Much of the rest is speculative

** because there are no trials **

Treatments are a key part of the way out of the COVID crisis.

But we have to know which ones work and which ones don't.

That is why clinical trials such as recoverytrial.net are so critical.

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Martin Landray

@MartinLandray

8 Oct

More results from the RECOVERY trial - Hydroxychloroquine:

Among patients hospitalised with COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) did not improve 28-day mortality, duration of hospital stay, or risk of progressing to invasive mechanical ventilation or death

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

1561 patients were randomised to HCQ + usual care
3155 patients were randomised to usual care alone
in the largest randomised trial of HCQ for treatment of COVID

No evidence of benefit of HCQ on any of the pre-specified endpoints.

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Martin Landray

@MartinLandray

6 Oct

Latest paper from RECOVERY trial:

In patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, lopinavir–ritonavir did not reduce 28-day mortality, duration of hospital stay, or risk of progressing to invasive mechanical ventilation or death.

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Lopinavir-ritonavir is an HIV treatment that was widely recommended and used for #COVID19. The RECOVERY trial has shown it does not work - so doctors no longer use it.

That’s why we do trials - to separate out drugs we think might work from drugs we know do work.

@UKRI_News

As always, huge thanks to all involved including funders (@UKRI_News @NIHRresearch), colleagues (@OxfordBRC @hdruk @Oxford_NDPH @NDMOxford), the NHS (@NHSEngland @NHSDigital) and the thousands of medical staff across the whole UK.

But most especially to our amazing patients.

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