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- Title
Risk of hospitalization and sequelae in patients with COVID‐19 treated with 3‐day early remdesivir vs. controls in the vaccine and Omicron era: A real‐life cohort study.
- Authors
Mazzitelli, Maria; Trunfio, Mattia; Sasset, Lolita; Scaglione, Vincenzo; Ferrari, Anna; Mengato, Daniele; Gardin, Samuele; Bonadiman, Nicola; Calandrino, Lucrezia; Agostini, Elena; Cattelan, Anna Maria
- Abstract
Recently, a benefit from administration of a 3‐day course of early remdesivir (ER) in the outpatients' setting was reported. However, real‐life data on its use is scarce. Therefore, we explored the ER clinical outcome in our outpatients' s cohort, compared to untreated controls. We included all patients who were prescribed ER from February to May 2022 and followed them up for 3 months and compared patients who received treatment with untreated controls. In the two groups the following outcomes were investigated: hospitalization and mortality rate, time of negativization and symptom's resolution, and postacute coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) syndrome prevalence. Overall, 681 patients were analyzed, mostly females (53.6%), and with a median age of 66 years (interquartile range: 54–77), 316 (46.4%) patients received ER, and 365 (53.6%) did not receive antiviral treatment (control group). Overall, 8.5% patients eventually required oxygen support, 8.7% were hospitalized for COVID‐19, and 1.5% died. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) immunization and ER (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 0.049 [0.015; 0.16], p < 0.001) independently reduced hospitalization risk. ER was significantly associated with a shorter duration of SARS‐CoV‐2 positivity at nasopharyngeal swabs (aβ −8.15 [−9.21; −7.09], p < 0.001) and of symptoms (aβ −5.11 [−5.82; −4.39], p < 0.001), and with lower rate of COVID‐19 sequelae compared to control group (aOR: 0.18 [0.10; 0.31], p < 0.001). Even in the SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination and Omicron era, in patients at high risk of developing severe disease, ER demonstrated to have a good safety profile and to significantly reduce the risk of disease progression and COVID‐19 sequelae compared to untreated controls.
- Subjects
SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant; CORONAVIRUS diseases; REMDESIVIR
- Publication
Journal of Medical Virology, 2023, Vol 95, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0146-6615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jmv.28660