RE: Endpoints article2 Mar 2022 17:02
Lets stick to the facts. Endpoints clearly states today that SAB185 "is the ONLY potential Covid-19 treatment included in ACTIV-2 that has been halted".
The full text is: "The trial “was designed when previous COVID-19 variants resulted in high infection and hospitalization rates,” Eddie Sullivan, CEO of SAB Biotherapeutics, explained in a statement. “We look forward to analyzing data from the ACTIV-2 trial to help inform our future clinical initiatives when it becomes available.”
But this is the only potential Covid-19 treatment included in ACTIV-2 that has been halted due to Omicron. The arm is part of NIH’s randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that’s using a master protocol to evaluate eight different Covid-related outpatient treatments, some of which have already won an EUA (e.g., AstraZeneca’s Evusheld) and others for which enrollment had already ended.
An NIAID spokesperson told Endpoints News, “Low Omicron-related hospitalizations and death rates within the ACTIV-2 study led to the decision to halt enrollment in the arm testing SAB-185. No other arm of the ACTIV-2 trial has been stopped for that reason.”
The spokesperson also said NIH’s ACTIV-3 (for inpatient monoclonal antibodies or other treatments) and ACTIV-5 trial (known as the “Big Effect” trial for hospitalized Covid patients) “have either ended or enrollment has closed.”
Enrollment in ACTIV-2 previously ended for other potential outpatient mAbs from Brii Biosciences, which released Phase III results last October for its orally administered serine protease inhibitor developed by Sagent Pharmaceuticals, and other potential mAbs developed by Bristol Myers Squibb. BMS and Sagent did not immediately respond for comment on updates.
The only other drug that might still be actively enrolling participants was Synairgen’s inhalable beta interferon candidate. Neither the company nor NIH immediately offered comment".
Good luck, Brighty