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. 2023 Feb 21;76(12):2077–2086. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad088

Table 1.

Trial Characteristics

Characteristic CSSC-004 CCP-Argentina CONV-ERT C3PO CoV-Early Total
Control arm Plasma Saline Saline Saline/MVC Plasma
Enrollment period June 2020
to Oct 2021
June 2020
to Oct 2020
Nov 2020
to July 2021
Aug 2020 to Feb 2021 Nov 2020
to July 2021
Trial duration, mo 16 5 9 7 9 46
Variants 614G, Alpha, Beta, Delta WA-1, D614G D614G, Alpha D614G D614G, Alpha
Geography US Argentina Spain US Netherlands
Target enrollment, No. 1280 210 474 900 690 3554
Enrolled, No. 1225 160 376 511 421 2693
mITT (% of target enrollment) 1181 (92) 154 (73) 369 (78) 500 (55) 416 (60) 2620 (74)
Age, y, median (range) 43 (18–85) 77 (65 to ≥90) 56 (IQR, 52–62) 54 (18–93) 60 (IQR, 55–65)
≥1 medical high-risk condition for COVID-19 progression 470 (40) 131 (82) 278 (74) 511 (100) 416 (100) 1806 (68.6)
Enrollment symptom duration for inclusion, d 0–8 0–3 0–7 0–7 0–7 0–8
Symptoms ≤5 d 517 (44) 154 (100) 283 (77) 389 (78) 226 (54) 1569 (60)
Symptoms ≤3 d 168 (14) 154 (100) 101 (27) 240 (48) 52 (13) 715 (27)
Median/mean duration of symptoms, median (mean) 6 3 (4.4) 4 5
Total female 675 (57) 98 (64) 169 (46) 265 (53) 93 (22) 1300 (50)
Age >50 y 411 (35) 154 (100) 368 (100) 310 (61) 414 (100) 1657 (63)
Age >65 y 80 (7) 154 (100) 73 (20) 95 (19) 113 (27) 515 (20)
Diabetes 99 (8) 35 (23) 39 (10) 142 (28) 29 (7) 344 (13)
Hypertension 276 (23) 110 (71) 244 (66) 216 (42) Not reported 846 (38)a
Obesity (BMI >30 kg/m2) 444 (38) 11 (7) 95 (26) 302 (60) 126 (30) 978 (37)

Data are presented as No. (%) unless otherwise indicated.

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; C3PO, clinical-trial of COVID-19 convalescent plasma in outpatients; CCP-Argentina, COVID-19 convalescent plasma-Argentina; CONV-ERT, convalescent methylene blue treated (MBT) plasma for early treatment; CoV-Early, early convalescent plasma therapy; CSSC-004, COVID-19 serologic studies consortium; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; IQR, interquartile range; mITT, modified intention-to-treat (those transfused); MVC, multivitamin concentrate; US, United States.

Only included 4 reported studies.