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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

UPMC did not allow patients to receive experimental COVID-19 therapies outside of the context of a clinical trial and used the REMAP-CAP platform, a global pragmatic adaptive trial platform, in all clinic sites. The COVID Therapeutics Committee created communication materials to be transparent and to get buy-in.

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Grand Rounds October 28, 2022: The HERO (Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes) Program: An Online Community to Support Observational Studies, Randomized Trials, and Long-Term Safety Surveillance (Emily O’Brien, PhD, FAHA; Russell Rothman, MD, MPP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

HERO Registry; HERO TOGETHER; Hydroxychloroquine; COVID-19; PCORI; PCORnet. On March 21, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, PCORI contacted leadership at Duke Clinical Research Institute and PCORnet and a decision was made to focus on the space of healthcare workers. Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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Grand Rounds April 14, 2023: RECOVER in Action – Status of Clinical Trial Protocols (Kanecia Zimmerman, PhD, MD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

RECOVER has used cohort data to identify major symptom clusters and develop 5 platform protocols that will investigator priority symptom clusters and their causes; test known and novel interventions across domains; and evaluate treatments to improve Long COVID symptoms. It’s all over the place. No, there are no signs PASC is going away.

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Grand Rounds July 8, 2022: Results From the COVID-OUT Trial, A Phase-3 Trial of Outpatient Treatment for Covid-19 Using Metformin, Ivermectin, and Fluvoxamine (Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH; Thomas Murray, PhD; Jared Huling, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

COVID-19, COVID-OUT. The COVID-OUT Trial is a remotely delivered, Phase 3, de-centralized clinical trial at 6 participating institutions to see if Ivermectin, Metformin or Fluvoxamine would prevent severe COVID-19. Learn more about COVID-OUT. Division of Biostatistics. Key Points. Discussion Themes.

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Analyzing web searches can help experts predict, respond to COVID-19 hot spots

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. — Web-based analytics have demonstrated their value in predicting the spread of infectious disease, and a new study from Mayo Clinic indicates the value of analyzing Google web searches for keywords related to COVID-19.

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Grand Rounds July 22, 2022: ACTIV-6: 1-Year Later and Trial Results for Ivermectin-400 and Inhaled Fluticasone (Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

ACTIV, ACTIV-6, COVID-19, Ivermectin, Inhaled Fluticasone. The key clinical questions of the ACTIV-6 study are: how to help someone feel better faster with newly diagnosed mild-moderate COVID-19 and how to prevent hospitalizations or death in someone with newly diagnosed mild-moderate COVID-19? Key Points.

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Grand Rounds July 15, 2022: Overview of Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Public-Private Partnership and Lessons Learned (Stacey J. Adam, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

ACTIV, COVID-19, FNIH. ACTIV was stood up in about a month, launching on April 17, 2020, to develop a coordinated research response to speed COVID-19 treatment and vaccine options. In the therapeutics arm, the most promising therapeutic agents for COVID-19 were prioritized. Foundation for the NIH.