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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2024 Mar 1;51(3):305–312. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.2023-0742

Table 3.

Breakthrough COVID-19 outcomes after tixagevimab/cilgavimab among patients with SARDs

Outcome SARD patients who received tixagevimab/cilgavimab (n=444)
Breakthrough COVID-19 83 (18.7%)
Incidence rate for breakthrough COVID-19 per 1000 person-months (95% CI) 31.5 (24.7 – 38.2)
Severe COVID-19 7 (1.6%)
Hospitalizations 7 (1.6%)
Deaths 1 (0.2%)
Incidence rate for severe COVID-19 per 1000 person-months (95% CI) 2.7 (0.7 – 4.6)
Median days from index date to infection (IQR) 146 (98 – 209)
Outpatient COVID-19 treatmentsa 63 (75.9%)
Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir 43 (51.8%)
Outpatient monoclonal antibodies 20 (24.1%)
No outpatient treatment 15 (18.1%)
Inpatient COVID-19 treatmentsb 5 (6.0%)

SARD, systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease; CI, confidence interval; IQR, interquartile range

a

No patients received molnupiravir or outpatient remdesivir

b

Inpatient COVID-19 treatments included remdesivir, dexamethasone, baricitinib, and monoclonal antibodies. Two out of the seven patients with severe COVID-19 received outpatient monoclonal antibodies before being admitted for secondary complications of COVID-19.