Dec 15, 2020
MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) For hospitalized adults with COVID-19, baricitinib plus remdesivir is better for reducing recovery time and improving clinical status than remdesivir alone, according to a study published online Dec. 11 in the
New England Journal of Medicine.
Andre C. Kalil, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and colleagues conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled trial examining baricitinib plus remdesivir in hospitalized adults with COVID-19. A total of 1,033 patients were randomly assigned: 515 were assigned to receive baricitinib plus remdesivir (combination treatment) and 518 to placebo plus remdesivir (control).
The researchers found that the median time to recovery was seven and eight days for combination treatment versus control (rate ratio for recovery, 1.16; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 1.01 to 1.32; P = 0.03). Patients receiving baricitinib had higher odds of improvement in clinical sta
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