New Crown Outbreak: 57.23 million! Lilly is granted the FDA's second Emergency Use Authorization (EUA): Olumiant and Redsiway treat hospitalized patients!

November 20, 2020 // -- At present, the outbreak of neo-crown pneumonia abroad is still spreading rapidly.
according to Baidu's Real-Time Big Data Report on the Outbreak of New Coronavirus Pneumonia, as of 12 p.m. on November 20, 2020, more than 57.23 million cases and more than 1.36 million deaths had been confirmed worldwide.
recently, Eli Lilly and partner Incyte jointly announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for distribution and emergency use of Olumiant (baricitinib, Baritini) in partnership with Veklury (Baricitini) remdesivir, Redsivir), for hospitalized adults and pediatric patients with suspected or laboratory-confirmed new coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), oxygen rehydration/invasive mechanical aeration/in vitro membrane pulmonary oxygenation (ECMO), age ≥2 years of age.
recommended dose for EUA is 4 mg of Olumiant once a day for 14 days or until discharge.
Olumiant's active pharmaceutical ingredient is baricitinib, a daily oral option, reversible JAK1 and JAK2 inhibitors that are currently under clinical development for the treatment of a variety of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriasis, diabetic nephropathy, idiopathic dermatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.
there are four types of JAK enzymes, JAK1, JAK2, JAK3 and TYK2.
JAK-dependent cytokines are involved in the onset of a variety of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, suggesting that JAK inhibitors may be widely used to treat a variety of inflammatory diseases.
in kinase testing trials, baricitinib showed 100 times more inhibition for JAK1 and JAK2 than JAK3.
Lilly and Incyte reached an exclusive cooperation agreement in 2009 to jointly develop Olumiant and a number of subsequent compounds.
to date, Olumiant has been approved by more than 70 countries around the world, including the United States, the European Union and Japan, for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
recently, Olumiant received EU approval for a new adaptation for systemic treatment in adult patients with moderate to severe idiopathic dermatitis.
it's worth noting that this is Lilly's second EPA award from the FDA.
November 9, the FDA granted the moderate antibody bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) EUA for the treatment of recently diagnosed mild to moderate COVID-19 high-risk patients, specifically adults and children aged ≥12 years with a high risk of developing severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.
bamlanivimab is treated with intravenous infusion and should be administered as soon as possible after testing positive for COVID-19 and within 10 days of the on-the-appearance of symptoms.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lilly has been looking for potential treatments to help people around the world who have been infected with the virus," said David A. Ricks, Chairman and CEO of Lilly.
today's FDA action against Olumiant marks Lilly's second EUA, which increases treatment options for COVID-19 patients at different stages of the disease, in addition to the recent mesothetic antibody EUA for high-risk non-hospitalized patients.
is an important milestone for patients hospitalized with rehydration, as Olumiant may help speed up their recovery.
" Olumiant EUA based on data from the Adaptive COVID-19 Therapeutic Trial (ACTT-2), a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted by countries affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) The Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducted an assessment of the efficacy and safety of Olumiant-Redsywe, placebo-Redsywe in hospitalized patients who needed or did not need rehydration.
all patients receive standard supportive care at the hospital at the test site.
results showed that patients in the Olumiant-Redsiway treatment group: (1) the time for mid-level rehabilitation was reduced by 1 day (7 days vs 8 days: improvement of 12.5%; HR was 1.15; 95% CI: 1.00-1.31; p was 0.047).
(2) is more likely to be in better clinical condition on the 15th day (OR=1.26,95%CI: 1.01-1.57, p=0.044).
(3) As of the 29th day, the progression of the disease to the need for breathing (no invasion or invasion) or a decrease in the proportion of patients who died (23% vs 28%; OR=0.74,95%CI:0.56-0.99, p=0.039).
(4) A 35 per cent (4.7 per cent vs 7.1 per cent) reduction in the proportion of patient deaths as of the 29th day; Kaplan-Meier estimates a difference in mortality on the 29th day: -2.6 per cent (95 per cent CI: -5.8 to 0.5 per cent).
the study, the rates of adverse events and severe adverse events were 41% and 15%, respectively, in the Olumiant-Redsiway treatment group, and 48% and 20%, respectively, in the placebo-Redsyve treatment group.
the rate of infection and venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the Olumiant-Redsiway treatment group was 6% and 4%, respectively, compared with 10% and 3% in the placebo-redsiver treatment group.
patients treated with Olumiant found no new safety signs.
data from the BAMlanivimab EUA based on the BLAZE-1 study.
was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 study of mild to moderate COVID-19 patients recently diagnosed in the clinic.
showed that patients treated with bamlanivimab showed reduced viral load, symptoms and hospitalization.
study, bamlanivimab and placebo had similar frequency and type of adverse events, mostly mild to moderate.
The study confirms that giving bamlanivimab early in the disease process can help patients remove the virus and reduce coVID-19-related hospitalization.
the FDA to the antibody EUA, it will provide an important treatment option for the U.S. fight against COVID-19.
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