Nirmatrelvir for Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Adult Outpatients with Covid-19

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BACKGROUND: Nirmatrelvir in combination with ritonavir is an antiviral treatment for mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). The efficacy of this treatment in patients who are at standard risk for severe Covid-19 or who are fully vaccinated and have at least one risk factor for severe Covid-19 has not been established.

METHODS: In this phase 2-3 trial, we randomly assigned adults who had confirmed Covid-19 with symptom onset within the past 5 days in a 1:1 ratio to receive nirmatrelvir-ritonavir or placebo every 12 hours for 5 days. Patients who were fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and who had at least one risk factor for severe disease, as well as patients without such risk factors who had never been vaccinated against Covid-19 or had not been vaccinated within the previous year, were eligible for participation. Participants logged the presence and severity of prespecified Covid-19 signs and symptoms daily from day 1 through day 28. The primary end point was the time to sustained alleviation of all targeted Covid-19 signs and symptoms. Covid-19-related hospitalization and death from any cause were also assessed through day 28.

RESULTS: Among the 1296 participants who underwent randomization and were included in the full analysis population, 1288 received at least one dose of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (654 participants) or placebo (634 participants) and had at least one postbaseline visit. The median time to sustained alleviation of all targeted signs and symptoms of Covid-19 was 12 days in the nirmatrelvir-ritonavir group and 13 days in the placebo group (P = 0.60). Five participants (0.8%) in the nirmatrelvir-ritonavir group and 10 (1.6%) in the placebo group were hospitalized for Covid-19 or died from any cause (difference, -0.8 percentage points; 95% confidence interval, -2.0 to 0.4). The percentages of participants with adverse events were similar in the two groups (25.8% with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir and 24.1% with placebo). In the nirmatrelvir-ritonavir group, the most commonly reported treatment-related adverse events were dysgeusia (in 5.8% of the participants) and diarrhea (in 2.1%).

CONCLUSIONS: The time to sustained alleviation of all signs and symptoms of Covid-19 did not differ significantly between participants who received nirmatrelvir-ritonavir and those who received placebo. (Supported by Pfizer; EPIC-SR ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT05011513.).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:390

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 390(2024), 13 vom: 04. Apr., Seite 1186-1195

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hammond, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Fountaine, Robert J [VerfasserIn]
Yunis, Carla [VerfasserIn]
Fleishaker, Dona [VerfasserIn]
Almas, Mary [VerfasserIn]
Bao, Weihang [VerfasserIn]
Wisemandle, Wayne [VerfasserIn]
Baniecki, Mary Lynn [VerfasserIn]
Hendrick, Victoria M [VerfasserIn]
Kalfov, Veselin [VerfasserIn]
Simón-Campos, J Abraham [VerfasserIn]
Pypstra, Rienk [VerfasserIn]
Rusnak, James M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
COVID-19 Vaccines
Clinical Trial, Phase II
Clinical Trial, Phase III
Journal Article
Nirmatrelvir and ritonavir drug combination
Randomized Controlled Trial

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Date Completed 12.04.2024

Date Revised 20.04.2024

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05011513

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1056/NEJMoa2309003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370879066