Acknowledgements
TROPICAL DISEASES
The authors thank the patients with COVID-19 who volunteered to be part of this study. The authors thank the data safety and monitoring board (DSMB): Tim Peto, Andre Siqueira, and Panisadee Avirutnan, and the trial steering committee (TSC): Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, Martin Llewelyn, Deborah Waller, and Attavit Asavisanu. The authors thank Sompob Saralamba and Tanaphum Wichaita for developing the RShiny randomization app and Mavuto Mukaka for statistical support. The authors also thank all the staff at the Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) at MORU. The authors are grateful to the PCR Expert group (Janjira Thaipadungpanit, Audrey Dubot-Pérès, Clare Ling and Elizabeth Batty), Thermo Fisher for their excellent support with this project, and all the hospital staff at the Hospital of Tropical Diseases (HTD), Bangplee (BP) and Vajira (VJ) hospitals, as well as those involved in sample processing in MORU and the processing and analysis at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, molecular genetics laboratory, and also the MORU Clinical Trials Support Group (CTSG) for data management and logistics, and the purchasing, administration and support staff at MORU. A CC BY, or equivalent licence, is applied to any author accepted manuscript arising from this submission, in accordance with the grant’s open access conditions.