“…We performed meta-analysis for 16 RCTs ( Balykova et al, 2020a ;Balykova et al, 2020b ;Balykova et al, 2020c ;Bosaeed et al, 2021 ;Chen et al, 2020a ;Chuah et al, 2021 ;Doi et al, 2020 ;Finberg et al, 2021 ;Ivashchenko et al, 2021 ;Pushkar, 2020 ;Ruzhentsova et al, 2021 ;Shenoy et al, 2021 ;Shinkai et al, 2021 ;Solaymani-Dodaran et al, 2021 ;Tabarsi et al, 2021 ;Udwadia et al, 2021 ) and 1 non-RCTs ( Cai et al, 2020 ), which studied the effect of favipiravir on hospitalized patients. The baseline characteristics of the controlled trials can be found in Supplemental Table 3.…”