Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy

ConditionPneumonia
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age0+
SponsorUniversity of Oxford

About this trial

RECOVERY is a randomised trial of treatments to prevent death in patients hospitalised with pneumonia.

The treatments being investigated are:

COVID-19: Lopinavir-Ritonavir, Hydroxychloroquine, Corticosteroids, Azithromycin, Colchicine, IV Immunoglobulin (children only), Convalescent plasma, Casirivimab+Imdevimab, Tocilizumab, Aspirin, Baricitinib, Empagliflozin, Sotrovimab, Molnupiravir, Paxlovid or Anakinra (children only)

Influenza: Baloxavir marboxil, Oseltamivir, Corticosteroids (dexamethasone)

Community-acquired pneumonia: Corticosteroids (dexamethasone)

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

typical symptoms of a new respiratory tract infection (e.g. influenza-like illness with fever and muscle pain, or respiratory illness with cough and shortness of breath); and

objective evidence of acute lung disease (e.g. consolidation or ground-glass shadowing on X-ray or CT, hypoxia, or compatible clinical examination); and

alternative causes have been considered unlikely or excluded (e.g. heart failure).

Confirmed influenza A or B infection (including patients with SARS-CoV-2 co-infection)

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Lopinavir-Ritonavir
  • Corticosteroid
  • Hydroxychloroquine
  • Azithromycin
  • Convalescent plasma
  • Tocilizumab
  • Immunoglobulin
  • Synthetic neutralising antibodies
  • Aspirin
  • Colchicine
  • Baricitinib
  • Anakinra
  • Dimethyl fumarate
  • High Dose Corticosteroid
  • Empagliflozin
  • Sotrovimab
  • Molnupiravir
  • Paxlovid
  • Baloxavir Marboxil
  • Oseltamivir
  • Corticosteroids (dexamethasone)
  • Corticosteroids (dexamethasone)

Treatment groups

70,000 Participants
are divided into 23 treatment groups

23

Treatment groups

See each treatment group below.

Sponsors and collaborators

University of Oxford

Lead sponsor

UK Research and Innovation

Collaborator

National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom

Collaborator

Wellcome Trust

Collaborator

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Collaborator

Department for International Development, United Kingdom

Collaborator

Health Data Research UK

Collaborator

Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit

Collaborator

NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections

Collaborator

Flu Lab

Collaborator