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. 2020 Sep 18;14:3803–3813. doi: 10.2147/DDDT.S272442

Table 5.

Summary of Antiviral Drug Clinical Trials for COVID-19

Number TrialID Intervention Study Design Target Size Primary Outcome Result Reference
1 ChiCTR2000029600 Favipiravir Control
Open-Label
80 A shorter viral clearance time was found for the FPV arm versus the control arm. [25]
2 ChiCTR2000030254 Favipiravir;
Arbidol
Randomized, controlled,
open-label
240 Clinical recovery rate of Day 7 does not significantly differ between Favipiravir group and Arbidol group. [26]
3 NA Arbidol;
Lopinavir/ritonavir
Control 50 Patients in the arbidol group had a shorter duration of positive RNA test compared to those in the lopinavir/ritonavir group. [27]
4 ChiCTR2000029308 Lopinavir-Ritonavir Randomized, controlled
open-label
199 Treatment with lopinavir-ritonavir was not associated with a difference from standard care in the time to clinical improvement [28]
5 NCT04276688 Beta-1b, lopinavir–ritonavir,
and ribavirin
Randomized
Open-label,
127 The combination group had a significantly shorter median time from start of study treatment to negative nasopharyngeal swab than the control group. [29]
6 NCT04257656 Remdesivir Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled 237 Remdesivir use was not associated with a difference in time to clinical improvement. [30]