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. 2021 Jul 16;326(6):1–9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.11517

Table 2. Participants With Absence of Symptoms at Day 14 by Randomized Treatment Group, Overall and in Prespecified Subgroups.

Absence of symptoms at day 14, No./total (%) Prevalence difference, % (95% CI) Prevalence ratio (95% CI) P valuea
Azithromycin Placebo
All participants 66/131 (50) 35/70 (50) 0 (−14 to 15) 1.01 (0.76-1.39) >.99
By age, y
≤60 61/121 (50) 31/62 (50) 0 (−15 to 16) .99
>60 5/10 (50) 4/8 (50) 0 (−46 to 46)
By baseline COVID-19 symptomsb
Asymptomatic 9/10 (90) 3/4 (75) 15 (−46 to 76) .52
Symptomatic 57/120 (48) 32/66 (48) −1 (−17 to 15)
a

Permutation test P value, 10 000 replicates (primary analysis) or P value for interaction on the additive scale (subgroup analyses), estimated with a linear-binomial model.

b

A single participant in the azithromycin group did not have baseline symptom information.