A real-time dashboard of clinical trials for COVID-19
27 Apr, 2020In response to the global coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency,
clinical trial research assessing the
efficacy and safety of clinical candidate
interventions to treat COVID-19 are
emerging at an unprecedented rate.
As of April 21, 2020, well over 500
clinical trials have been registered at
the various international and national
clinical trial registry sites. Findings
from randomised clinical trials that
have been published as of April 21,
2020, have investigated the efficacy
of lopinavir–ritonavir compared with
standard of care,1
hydroxychloroquine
compared with best supportive care,2
favipiravir compared with arbidol,3
and lopinavir–ritonavir compared with
arbidol.4
Other non-randomised trials
have investigated hydroxychloroquine
versus hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin.5 Over 300 trials are enrolling participants and cover further investigations of the above drugs and promising therapies such as remdesivir, IL-6 inhibitors (tocilizumab and sarilumab), convalescent plasma therapy, stem-cell transfusion, vaccine candidates, several other well known direct acting antiv irals, and traditional Chinese medicines. Most of these trials will offer comparative efficacy data versus standard of care according to local COVID-19 treatment guidelines, but a handful of randomised controlled trials will also provide headto-head evidence between high profile interventions. The figure shows the network of completed, ongoing, and planned COVID-19 interventional clinical trials of these interventions or intervention groups that are being explored in at least two trials.