{"id":4430,"date":"2021-02-18T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2021-02-19T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T03:39:28","slug":"the-efficacy-and-safety-of-favipiravir-in-treatment-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/18\/the-efficacy-and-safety-of-favipiravir-in-treatment-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-clinical-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"The Efficacy and Safety of Favipiravir in Treatment of COVID-19 A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> A systematic review and meta-analysis of nine clinical trials found the antiviral medication favipiravir was associated with a significant clinical improvement (vs control) 7 days after hospital admission (RR=1.24). Risk of viral clearance by 14 days of hospital admission was higher while requirements for supplemental oxygen therapy and mortality were lower among individuals who received Favipiravir; however, these outcomes were not statistically significantly different than controls.<\/p>\n<p><i>Hassanpour et al.\u00a0(Feb 17, 2021). The Efficacy and Safety of Favipiravir in Treatment of COVID-19 A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials. Pre-print downloaded Feb 18 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.14.21251693\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.14.21251693<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A systematic review and meta-analysis of nine clinical trials found the antiviral medication favipiravir was associated with a significant clinical improvement (vs control) 7 days after hospital admission (RR=1.24). Risk of viral clearance by 14 days of hospital admission was higher while requirements for supplemental oxygen therapy and mortality were lower&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/18\/the-efficacy-and-safety-of-favipiravir-in-treatment-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-clinical-trials\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}