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Interferon Lambda for Immediate Antiviral Therapy at Diagnosis in COVID-19

Phase 2
Completed
Conditions
Sars-CoV2
Covid-19
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT04354259
Lead Sponsor
University Health Network, Toronto
Brief Summary

Interferon lambda is one of the main arms of the innate antiviral immune response and is critical for controlling respiratory viral infections in mice. Interferon lambda has a better side effect profile than other interferons because of the limited tissue distribution of its receptor. Peginterferon lambda is a long-acting form that has been studied extensively in human trials in viral hepatitis, confirming its safety. We propose to evaluate peginterferon-lambda in ambulatory and hospitalized patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

Detailed Description

The study uses an adaptive design with initial enrolment in the Ambulatory cohort (Cohort A) followed by a safety assessment before initiation of enrolment in the Hospitalized cohort (Cohort B).

Ambulatory patients (Cohort A) with confirmed COVID-19 deemed well enough for home isolation will be randomized to receive a single subcutaneous injection of Peginterferon lambda 180µg or saline placebo prior to discharge. Patients will be followed remotely with visits for a repeat swab at Day 3 and 7 with the primary endpoint being the proportion positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Day 7.

Safety data will be reviewed by the Data Safety and Monitoring Committee after 50% of the Ambulatory cohort (n=60) has been enrolled. If the committee approves study continuation, enrolment will continue in the Ambulatory cohort (Cohort A) and will begin in the Hospitalized cohort (Cohort B).

Hospitalized patients (Cohort B) with moderate but not severe COVID-19 will be enrolled and randomized to Peginterferon lambda 180µg or saline placebo on Day 0 and 5. The primary endpoint will be clinical outcomes on the WHO ordinal scale. In addition to the primary endpoint on which the study is powered, numerous secondary endpoints will be evaluated. Samples will also be collected for ancillary studies to better understand predictors of disease severity and response to treatment.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
157
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Ambulatory Cohort - placeboplaceboPatients in the arm will be given a single injection of 0.9% sodium chloride (normal saline) solution at baseline (day 0). A plastic 1 mL syringe will be prefilled by the study pharmacy. Each syringe will contain 0.5 mL (0.45 mL to match the volume of the Interferon plus 0.05 mL overfill) to allow for needle priming by the unblinded study nurse.
Hospitalized Cohort - placeboplaceboPatients in the arm will be given an injection of 0.9% sodium chloride (normal saline) solution at baseline (day 0). A plastic 1 mL syringe will be prefilled by the study pharmacy. Each syringe will contain 0.5 mL (0.45 mL to match the volume of the Interferon plus 0.05 mL overfill) to allow for needle priming by the unblinded study nurse. Patients will be administered a second dose of placebo on day 5.
Ambulatory Cohort - TreatmentPeginterferon Lambda-1Ato receive a single dose of peginterferon lambda 180µg SC at baseline (day 0).
Hospitalized Cohort - TreatmentPeginterferon Lambda-1ATo receive a dose of peginterferon lambda 180µg SC at baseline and a second dose on day 5.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Treatment-emergent and treatment related serious adverse events (Primary Safety Endpoint)Day 0 to Day 28

The rate of treatment-emergent and treatment-related serious adverse events (SAEs)

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Proportion swab negative at day 7 (Primary efficacy endpoint)At day 7

The proportion of participants with negative SARS-CoV-2 RNA on nasopharyngeal swab.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Ordinal Scale (Primary Efficacy Endpoint)At Day 14

Clinical status on an ordinal scale at Day 14

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - treatment-emergent and treatment-related serious adverse events (Primary Safety Endpoint)Day 0 to Day 28

The rate of treatment-emergent and treatment-related serious adverse events (SAEs)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cohort B (Hospitalized) - COVID-19-related mortality (Clinical Outcome #8)At day 28

COVID-19-related mortality

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Symptom severity scores (Clinical Outcome #2)Day 0 to Day 7

Change in relative categorical symptom scores (respiratory, gastrointestinal, fever) - none, mild, moderate, severe and no change, worse, better

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Adverse and serious adverse events (Clinical Outcome #4)Day 0 to Day 14

Adverse events and serious adverse events

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Symptoms in household contacts (Transmission Outcome #1)Day 0 to Day 14

Proportion with symptom development in household contacts (categorical symptom type yes/no)

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - ICU admission (Clinical Outcome #2)Day 0 to day 28

Proportion with ICU admission during hospitalization

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Change in respiratory symptom score (Clinical Outcome #5)Day 0 to 7, Day 0 to 14, and Day 0 to 28

Change in respiratory symptom score (score 0 to 7 with higher scores indicating more severe disease)

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Hospitalization (Clinical Outcome #3)Day 0 to Day 14

Proportion with need for hospital admission

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Symptom Resolution (Clinical Outcome #1)Day 0 to Day 14

Time to resolution of symptoms (fever, cough, diarrhea)

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Swab negative at day 3 (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #1)At Day 3

Proportion negative for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by nasopharyngeal swab

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Correlation with interferon lambda 4 genotype (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #5)Through day 7

Correlation of virologic response with interferon lambda 4 (IFNL4) genotype

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - COVID-19 in household contacts (Transmission Outcome #2)At Day 30

Proportion with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 in household contacts

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Need for intubation (Clinical Outcome #3)Day 0 to Day 14 and to Day 28

Proportion with need for intubation

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Length of hospital stay (Clinical Outcome #4)Day 0 to Day 14

Length of hospital stay (days)

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Proportion with antibodies (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #4)Day 0 and Day 7

Proportion with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies blood

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - All-cause mortality (Clinical Outcome #6)At day 28 and day 90

All-cause mortality

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Proportion negative swab. (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #2)Days 0-7, 10, 12, 14, 18, 21, 25 and 28

Proportion negative for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by mid-turbinate swab

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #6)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in white blood cell count over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Inflammatory Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #14)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in ferritin over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Inflammatory Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #15)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in lactate dehydrogenase over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Inflammatory Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #16)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in c-reactive protein over time

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Time RNA negativity (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #2)Day 0 to Day 14

Time to SARS-CoV-2 RNA negativity on mid-turbinate nasal swab or saliva

Cohort A (Ambulatory) - Proportion viremic (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #3)Day 0 and Day 7

Proportion with SARS-CoV-2 RNA in blood.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Ordinal scale (Clinical Outcome #1)At Days 7, 21 and 28

Clinical status on the ordinal scale

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Readmission to hospital (Clinical Outcome #7)From Day 0 -28 and from Day 0 - 90

Proportion with readmission to hospital

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Adverse (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) (Clinical Outcome #9)Day 0 to day 28

Adverse (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Correlation with interferon lambda 4 (IFNL4) genotype (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #4)Through Day 14

Correlation of virologic response with interferon lambda 4 (IFNL4) genotype

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #7)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in lymphocyte count over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #10)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in AST over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Dose reduction or dose omission (Clinical Outcome #10)Day 5 to day 9

Frequency of dose reduction or dose omission for the second dose of peginterferon lambda

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #11)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in ALP over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #13)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in albumin over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Quantitative viral load by nasal swab (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #3)Day 0 - Day 28

Change in quantitative SARS-CoV-2 RNA by mid-turbinate swab over time

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Inflammatory Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #17)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in D-dimers over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Inflammatory Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #18)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in creatine kinase over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Proportion with Antibody (Virologic/Immunological) Outcome #20)At Day 7, 14, 21, and 28

Proportion with SARS-CoV-2 Antibody.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Time to viral negativity (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #1)Day 0 - Day 28

Time to SARS-CoV-2 RNA negativity.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #5)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in hemoglobin over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #8)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in platelet count over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #9)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in ALT over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Safety Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #12)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in bilirubin over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Inflammatory Markers (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #19)From Day 0 - Day 7 and to Day 14, 21, and 28

Change in troponin over time.

Cohort B (Hospitalized) - Proportion with viremia (Virologic/Immunological Outcome #21)Day 0, Day 7, 14, 21, and 28

Proportion with SARS-CoV-2 RNA in blood

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

University of Calgary

🇨🇦

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu

🇧🇷

Botucatu, Brazil

Hospital das Clínicas São Paulo

🇧🇷

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz

🇧🇷

São Paulo, Brazil

University Health Network

🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michael Garron Hospital

🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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