Trump’s diagnosis highlights one of the challenges of the pandemic: There are few treatment options. He has been treated with Regeneron's antibody treatment, Gilead's remdesivir, supplemental oxygen and now dexamethasone, according to Dr. Sean Conley.
President Donald Trump, who recently tested positive for the coronavirus, is now being treated with dexamethasone, a type of steroid that is often used to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients.
Since Trump tweeted Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus, there has been conflicting information released from White House officials about the president’s health, including the date of his last negative COVID-19 and when he began treatment. Trump’s diagnosis highlights one of the still challenging clinical elements of the COVID-19 pandemic, that there are few treatment options available for patients with COVID-19.
“Dexamethasone is a cheap, widely available, definitively effective therapy for patients on oxygen support in the hospital,” Raymond James analyst Steven Seedhouse told investors in June. “To be clear, it has no apparent benefit in patients not on oxygen or not hospitalized.” Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 and Lilly’s LY-CoV555 are both being tested in clinical trials, for people with mild to moderate forms of the disease. Like convalescent-plasma treatments, these drugs also rely on antibodies, and both have shown so far that they help reduce viral load, based on interim data shared in the past month. Raymond James analysts predicted Friday morning that one of these investigational drugs would be prescribed to Trump.
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