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Table 3 Medication treatment modalities by study cohort. The medication numbers do not match the respective patient cohort sizes due to an overlap of multiple medications applied in individual patients

From: Investigational medications in 9,638 hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19: lessons from the “fail-and-learn” strategy during the first two waves of the pandemic in 2020

Number of patients per cohort

“Early 2020” (n = 3,221)

“Late 2020” (n = 6,417)

Total (N = 9,638)

Number of patients per medication

   

Azithromycin

2,063 (64.05%)

3,039 (47.36%)

5,102 (52.94%)

Corticosteroids

2,282 (70.85%)

6,216 (96.87%)

8,498 (88.17%)

Hydroxychloroquine

1,157 (35.92%)

82 (1.28%)

1,239 (12.86%)

Remdesivir

834 (25.89%)

3,290 (51.27%)

4,124 (42.79%)

Tocilizumab

549 (17.04%)

251 (3.91%)

800 (8.30%)