Remdesivir: The COVID19 drug helping patients recover faster
Remdesivir has been shown to speed up recovery times for patients with COVID-19 in a major US-led trial, becoming the first drug with proven benefit against the disease.Remdesivir is an experimental, broad spectrum antiviral made by US pharmaceutical Gilead Sciences that was first developed to treat Ebola, a viral hemorrhagic fever.
In February, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced it was dusting off remdesivir to investigate against SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, because it had shown promise in animal testing against fellow coronaviruses SARS and MERS.The NIAID announced the results of its trial involving more than 1,000 people on Wednesday, finding that hospitalized COVID-19 patients with respiratory distress got better quicker than those on a placebo.
Importantly, however, it had to be stopped early because it could not recruit enough patients, and was roughly five times smaller than the NIAID study. "I was speaking with the commissioner of the FDA yesterday evening, last night, and he's moving along very quickly," Fauci said Thursday. In an open letter published late Wednesday, Daniel O'Day, Gilead's chairman, wrote that the company currently had 1.5 million doses either finished or nearly finished.
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