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Effect of Oral Azithromycin vs Placebo on COVID-19 Symptoms in Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, August 2021
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Title
Effect of Oral Azithromycin vs Placebo on COVID-19 Symptoms in Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, August 2021
DOI 10.1001/jama.2021.11517
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Catherine E. Oldenburg, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Jessica Brogdon, Cindi Chen, Kevin Ruder, Lina Zhong, Fanice Nyatigo, Catherine A. Cook, Armin Hinterwirth, Elodie Lebas, Travis Redd, Travis C. Porco, Thomas M. Lietman, Benjamin F. Arnold, Thuy Doan

Abstract

Azithromycin has been hypothesized to have activity against SARS-CoV-2. To determine whether oral azithromycin in outpatients with SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to absence of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms at day 14. Randomized clinical trial of azithromycin vs matching placebo conducted from May 2020 through March 2021. Outpatients from the US were enrolled remotely via internet-based surveys and followed up for 21 days. Eligible participants had a positive SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test result (nucleic acid amplification or antigen) within 7 days prior to enrollment, were aged 18 years or older, and were not hospitalized at the time of enrollment. Among 604 individuals screened, 297 were ineligible, 44 refused participation, and 263 were enrolled. Participants, investigators, and study staff were masked to treatment randomization. Participants were randomized in a 2:1 fashion to a single oral 1.2-g dose of azithromycin (n = 171) or matching placebo (n = 92). The primary outcome was absence of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms at day 14. There were 23 secondary clinical end points, including all-cause hospitalization at day 21. Among 263 participants who were randomized (median age, 43 years; 174 [66%] women; 57% non-Hispanic White and 29% Latinx/Hispanic), 76% completed the trial. The trial was terminated by the data and safety monitoring committee for futility after the interim analysis. At day 14, there was no significant difference in proportion of participants who were symptom free (azithromycin: 50%; placebo: 50%; prevalence difference, 0%; 95% CI, -14% to 15%; P > .99). Of 23 prespecified secondary clinical end points, 18 showed no significant difference. By day 21, 5 participants in the azithromycin group had been hospitalized compared with 0 in the placebo group (prevalence difference, 4%; 95% CI, -1% to 9%; P = .16). Among outpatients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, treatment with a single dose of azithromycin compared with placebo did not result in greater likelihood of being symptom free at day 14. These findings do not support the routine use of azithromycin for outpatient SARS-CoV-2 infection. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04332107.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 239 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 11%
Student > Bachelor 26 11%
Researcher 25 10%
Other 16 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 5%
Other 37 15%
Unknown 97 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 59 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 16 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 2%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 108 45%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1256. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2024.
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#10,920
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Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#291
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#499
of 437,524 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#10
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