A vaccine and a drug against COVID-19 are closer to human testing
to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, which will ready the vaccine for human testing as early as April.called remdesivir that had been developed for Ebola, on a patient infected with SARS-CoV-2. The trial is the first to test a drug for treating COVID-19, and will be led by a team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Remdesivir showed encouraging results among animals infected with two related coronaviruses, one responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome and another for causing Middle East respiratory syndrome . Volunteers will be randomly assigned to receive either the drug or a placebo intravenously for 10 days, and they will have blood tests and nose and throat swabs taken every two days to track the amount of virus in their bodies.
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