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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2021

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pharmacologic Treatments for Children: Research Priorities and Approach to Pediatric Studies.

Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Nicole Salazar-Austin, James H Conway, Kendra Radtke, Sylvia M LaCourse, Elizabeth Maleche-Obimbo, Anneke C Hesseling, Rada M Savic, Sharon Nachman

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Agenda for COVID-19 and long COVID research priorities in Brazil: results of wide consultation and Delphi consensus, 2022-2023.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Anthony J Garcia-PratsDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Nicole Salazar-AustinDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
James H ConwayDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Kendra RadtkeDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Sylvia M LaCourseDepartments of Medicine and Global Health, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Elizabeth Maleche-ObimboDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Anneke C HesselingDesmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.
Rada M SavicDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Sharon NachmanDepartment of Pediatrics, Stony Brook Children's, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · USDesmond Tutu HIV Foundation · ZAJohns Hopkins University · USStony Brook Children's Hospital · USUniversity of Nairobi · KEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

CLINICAL, PHARMACOLOGY, DRUG ACTION &PHARMACOKINETICST32GM007546 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Radojka Savic · 1985 to 2026
$8.9M
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AND PHARMACOGENOMICST32GM007175 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AHITUV, NADAV, KROETZ, DEANNA L · 1985 to 2021
$7.1M
Impact of maternal HIV on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among peripartum women and their infantsK23AI120793 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LACOURSE, SYLVIA · 2016 to 2020
$910k
Task-Shifting Pediatric TB/HIV Prevention to Community Health Workers in South AfricaK23HD096973 · NICHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SALAZAR-AUSTIN, NICOLE · 2019 to 2022
$682k
NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI120793NICHD NIH HHS K23 HD096973NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007175NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical trials of pharmacologic treatments of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are being rapidly designed and implemented in adults. Children are often not considered during development of novel treatments for infectious diseases until very late. Although children appear to have a lower risk compared with adults of severe COVID-19 disease, a substantial number of children globally will benefit from pharmacologic treatments. It will be reasonable to extrapolate efficacy of most treatments from adult trials to children. Pediatric trials should focus on characterizing a treatment's pharmacokinetics, optimal dose, and safety across the age spectrum. These trials should use an adaptive design to efficiently add or remove arms in what will be a rapidly evolving treatment landscape, and should involve a large number of sites across the globe in a collaborative effort to facilitate efficient implementation. All stakeholders must commit to equitable access to any effective, safe treatment for children everywhere.

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COVID-19AdultChildHumansResearch DesignSARS-CoV-2Treatment OutcomechildrenCOVID-19pharmacokineticsresearchtrials

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PMID32594142
PMCPMC7337679
OpenAlexW3037876907

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