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. 2021 Jul 28;2021(7):CD015017. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015017.pub2

NCT04729140.

Study name An outpatient clinical trial using ivermectin and doxycycline in COVID‐19 positive patients at high risk to prevent COVID‐19 related hospitalization
Methods
  • Trial design: double‐blind RCT with 3 parallel arms, only 2 arms relevant; the third arm investigates doxycycline

  • Type of record: trial register entry

  • Sample size: 150

  • Setting: outpatient

  • Country: USA

  • Language: English

  • Number of centres: NR

  • Study purpose (treatment, prevention): treatment

  • Trial registration number: NCT04729140

  • Date of registration: 28 January 2021

Participants
  • Inclusion criteria

    • Age ≥ 18 years

    • Willing and able to provide verbal/telephonic/personal or computer‐based informed consent

    • Experiencing symptoms of COVID‐19 illness and tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 with PCR, NAAT, or antigen testing

    • Residents in a nursing home or long‐term care facility

    • Immunocompromised state, including solid organ transplant, HIV infection, other immune deficiency, immunosuppressant medication including systemic corticosteroids

    • Chronic lung disease, including COPD, moderate‐to‐severe asthma, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis

    • Cardiovascular disease

    • Cancer

    • Hypertension

    • Obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2)

    • Diabetes mellitus

    • Chronic kidney disease

    • Chronic liver disease

    • Cerebrovascular disease

    • Neurological disorders including dementia

    • Tobacco use disorders

    • Haematological disorders, including sickle cell disease and thalassaemia

  • Exclusion criteria

    • Age < 18 years

    • Received any COVID vaccine within the last 30 days

    • Contraindications to ivermectin or doxycycline

    • History of seizure disorder or epilepsy

    • History of myocardial infarction within last month

    • Already receiving ivermectin or doxycycline for treatment of any other disease or disorder

    • Allergies to ivermectin or doxycycline including angio‐oedema, severe asthma, exfoliative dermatitis, Steven Johnson syndrome, or psoriasis

    • History of angio‐oedema, exfoliative dermatitis, Steven Johnson syndrome, psoriasis

    • Currently pregnant or planning to conceive

    • Breastfeeding

    • History of prior Clostridium difficile infection

Interventions
  • Details of intervention for relevant arms

    • Type and dose: ivermectin 0.2 mg/kg, once daily for 2 days

    • Route of administration: oral

  • Treatment details of control group

    • Placebo

  • Concomitant therapy: NA

Outcomes
  • Primary study outcome

    • Decreased admission rate to the hospital secondary to respiratory illness related to COVID‐19 within 5 weeks

  • Relevant review outcomes planned

    • Mortality at 5 weeks

  • Additional study outcomes

    • Decrease in total duration of symptoms secondary to respiratory illness related to COVID‐19 within 5 weeks

    • Assessment of various blood biomarkers (e.g. cytokines, glucose, electrolytes, CRP, liver enzymes, etc.) within 2 weeks

    • Measurement of participants with new onset of various physical and psychological symptoms secondary to respiratory illness related to COVID‐19 within 5 weeks

Starting date 28 December 2020
Contact information Werther Marciales, MD
MAX HEALTH, Subsero Health
2055 Wood Street, Suite 100
Sarasota, Florida, 34237
US
werther40@msn.com 
Notes
  • Recruitment status: recruiting

  • Prospective completion date: 28 March 2021

  • Date last update posted: 1 April 2021

  • Sponsor/funding: Max Health, Subsero Health