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drug3367 | Tice® BCG (for intravesical use) BCG LIVE strain of the BCG (Merck) vaccine Wiki | 1.00 |
drug2555 | Polyoxidonium Wiki | 1.00 |
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There is one clinical trial.
The current COVID-19 epidemic threatens to overwhelm the capacity of many countries to meet their populations' health care needs. Although several vaccines specific for SARS-CoV-2 have been or are being developed, these require testing in animal and human safety studies and they are unlikely to be available during the expected peak periods of the growing epidemic. Two groups at especially high risk of infection and disease are front line health care workers working directly with COVID-19 patients and elderly residents of group homes or facilities that provide skilled nursing care to this frail population. Interim measures to protect these groups while we await a high efficacy vaccine are desperately needed. Based on the capacity of BCG to (1) reduce the incidence of respiratory tract infections in children and adults; (2) exert antiviral effects in experimental models; and (3) reduce viremia in an experimental human model of viral infection, we hypothesize that BCG vaccination may induce (partial) protection against susceptibility to and/or severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study will evaluate the efficacy of BCG to reduce risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 and mitigate COVID-19 disease severity in at risk health care providers. A phase III randomized controlled trial provides the highest validity to answer this research question. Given the immediate threat of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic the trial has been designed as a pragmatic study with a highly feasible primary endpoint, which can be continuously measured. This allows for the most rapid identification of a beneficial outcome that would allow other at-risk individuals, including the control population, to also benefit from the intervention if and as soon as it has demonstrated efficacy and safety.
Description: The primary outcome measure is the development of symptomatic COVID 19 infections. We will use the Cox proportional-hazards model to calculate hazard ratios for the development of COVID-19. This will be reported as the incidence of rt-PCR-confirmed symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following BCG vaccination compared to that following placebo, starting from 3 days post-vaccination through 6 months.
Measure: Incidence of symptomatic rt-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection Time: 6 monthsDescription: The secondary outcome measure is the development of Serology-confirmed infection with SARS-CoV-2. We will use the Cox proportional-hazards model to calculate hazard ratios for the development of COVID-19. This will be reported as the incidence of serology-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 following BCG vaccination compared to that following placebo, starting from 3 days post vaccination through 6 months.
Measure: incidence of Serology-confirmed infection with SARS-CoV-2 Time: 6 monthsDescription: In individuals who test positive for COVID-19, the proportion with severe disease following BCG vaccination compared to placebo, as defined by the following necessary care levels: non- hospital care; patient hospitalized but no oxygen required; hospitalized and oxygen required; patient treated in intensive care and/or on mechanical ventilation; patient died.Additional WHO severity indicators of severe pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis, septic shock will also be included.
Measure: severity of COVID-19 disease Time: 6 monthsDescription: Incidence of self-reported symptomatic respiratory infections following BCG vaccination compared to that following placebo, starting from 3 days post-vaccination through 6 months.
Measure: symptomatic respiratory infection Time: 6 monthsDescription: rates of 1) all cause respiratory infection 2) symptomatic COVID- 19, 3) serology-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers.
Measure: effect of prior adult immunization with other vaccines associated with trained immunity Time: 6 monthsAlphabetical listing of all HPO terms. Navigate: Correlations Clinical Trials
Data processed on December 13, 2020.
An HTML report was created for each of the unique drugs, MeSH, and HPO terms associated with COVID-19 clinical trials. Each report contains a list of either the drug, the MeSH terms, or the HPO terms. All of the terms in a category are displayed on the left-hand side of the report to enable easy navigation, and the reports contain a list of correlated drugs, MeSH, and HPO terms. Further, all reports contain the details of the clinical trials in which the term is referenced. Every clinical trial report shows the mapped HPO and MeSH terms, which are also hyperlinked. Related HPO terms, with their associated genes, protein mutations, and SNPs are also referenced in the report.
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