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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021

COVID-19: Failure of the DisCoVeRy Clinical Trial, and Now-New Hopes?

Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jean Jacques Vanden EyndeFormerly Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry (FS), University of Mons-UMONS, 7000 Mons, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4770-4104
University of Mons · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The DisCoVeRy clinical trial aimed at the evaluation of four treatments for patients suffering from severe to critical COVID-19: Hydroxychloroquine, eventually associated with azithromycin; the combination lopinavir/ritonavir; the combination with the addition of interferon β-1a; remdesivir. The trial was discontinued due to the lack of positive results. Meanwhile, many other potential options have been considered either to target the virus itself, the interactions with the host cells, or the cytokine storm frequently observed during the infection. Several of those options are briefly reviewed. They include vaccines, small molecules, antibodies, and stem cells.

Indexed as

antibodiesCOVID-19cytokine stormhydroxychloroquinelopinavirremdisivirritonavirSARS-CoV-2stem cellsvaccine

Identifiers

PMID34358090
PMCPMC8308776
OpenAlexW3178466543

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Registered trials

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