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. 2022 Apr 21;75(11):1883–1892. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac312

Table 2.

Primary and Secondary Outcomes

Outcome Treatment Arm Measure of Association
Placebo Favipiravir aHR (95% CI) P Value
Primary outcomea
 Days until viral shedding cessation, median (IQR) 13 (9–14) 14 (9–21) 0.76 (.48–1.20) .24
Secondary clinical outcomes
 Hospitalizations by day 28b, No. (%) of participants 4/74 (5) 0 .06
 ED visits by day 28b, No. (%) of participants 7/74 (10) 5/75 (7) .56
 Days until initial resolution of symptomsc, median (IQR) 14 (11–18) 15 (12–26) 0.84 (.54–1.29) .43
 Days until sustained resolution of symptomsc, median (IQR) 24 (21–NA) NA (26–NA) 0.87 (.52–1.45) .59
Secondary virologic outcomesa Δ Reverse Ctd
(95% CI)
P Value
 Change in reverse Ctd from day 1 to 7, mean (SD) −7.0 (5.6) −9.2 (5.0) −2.06 (−4.34 to .22) .08
 Change in reverse Ctd from day 1 to 10, mean (SD) −10.5 (5.1) −12.9 (5.9) −1.83 (−4.19 to .53) .13
 Negative by RT-PCR on day 7, No. (%) of participants 10/47 (21) 10/42 (24) .80
 Negative by RT-PCR on day 10, No. (%) of participants 23/45 (51) 20/35 (57) .65
Safety outcomesb
 Serious AEs, No. (%) of events 1 (1.4) 0
  Resulting in death 0 0
  Resulting in hospitalization 1 (100.0) 0
 AEs, No. of events 15 27
 AEs, No. (%) of participants 10 (13.5) 19 (25.3) .11
 Grade 3 AEs, No. (%) 2 (13.3) 2 (7.4)
Most common AEs, No. (%) of participants
 Dizziness 2 (2.7) 3 (4.0)
 Nausea 3 (4.1) 1 (1.3)
Day 10 uric acid, mg/dL, median (IQR) 4.9 (4.1–6.0) 7.4 (6.3–9.0)

All virologic endpoints use anterior nares swab results unless otherwise noted.

Abbreviations: AE, adverse event; aHR, adjusted hazard ratio (adjusted for age ≥50 years and sex); CI, confidence interval; Ct, cycle threshold; ED, emergency department; IQR, interquartile range; NA, undefined; RT-PCR, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction; SD, standard deviation.

a

Among the modified intention-to-treat (mITT) population.

b

Among the ITT population.

c

Among the symptomatic mITT (smITT) population.

d

Reverse Ct was defined by subtracting the Ct value from 40 (the limit of detection; see Supplementary Methods for details).