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Comment
. 2021 Dec;9(12):1344-1345.
doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00412-4. Epub 2021 Oct 18.

Subcutaneous interferon beta-1a in COVID-19: raking the ashes of an intervention trial

Tom Wilkinson  1
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Subcutaneous interferon beta-1a in COVID-19: raking the ashes of an intervention trial

Tom Wilkinson. Lancet Respir Med. 2021 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

TW reports being a founder and director of, and a shareholder in, my mhealth, outside of the submitted work; receiving research grants for trials of interferon beta and other COVID-19 treatments from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Synairgen, Bergenbio, UCB, NIHR, UKRI, and my mhealth within the submitted work; receiving consultancy fees from AstraZeneca, Synairgen, my mhealth, Valneva, OM Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Roche within the submitted work; receiving fees for attending lectures and meetings from Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, Chiesi, Teva, and GlaxoSmithKline outside the submitted work; receiving travel support for attending conferences and meetings from Nutricia, AstraZeneca, Chiesi, Boehringer Ingelheim, and GlaxoSmithKline outside the submitted work; applying for patents for bacterial vaccines with GlaxoSmithKline and my mhealth, outside of the submitted work; being a member of a specialist chronic obstructive pulmonary disease advisory group within the submitted work; and being a member of the independent data monitoring committee of a vaccine study sponsored by Valneva and Synairgen within the submitted work.

Comment on

  • Efficacy of interferon beta-1a plus remdesivir compared with remdesivir alone in hospitalised adults with COVID-19: a double-bind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.
    Kalil AC, Mehta AK, Patterson TF, Erdmann N, Gomez CA, Jain MK, Wolfe CR, Ruiz-Palacios GM, Kline S, Regalado Pineda J, Luetkemeyer AF, Harkins MS, Jackson PEH, Iovine NM, Tapson VF, Oh MD, Whitaker JA, Mularski RA, Paules CI, Ince D, Takasaki J, Sweeney DA, Sandkovsky U, Wyles DL, Hohmann E, Grimes KA, Grossberg R, Laguio-Vila M, Lambert AA, Lopez de Castilla D, Kim E, Larson L, Wan CR, Traenkner JJ, Ponce PO, Patterson JE, Goepfert PA, Sofarelli TA, Mocherla S, Ko ER, Ponce de Leon A, Doernberg SB, Atmar RL, Maves RC, Dangond F, Ferreira J, Green M, Makowski M, Bonnett T, Beresnev T, Ghazaryan V, Dempsey W, Nayak SU, Dodd L, Tomashek KM, Beigel JH; ACTT-3 study group members. Kalil AC, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2021 Dec;9(12):1365-1376. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00384-2. Epub 2021 Oct 18. Lancet Respir Med. 2021. PMID: 34672949 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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