Gilead's experimental drug remdesivir may be the first effective coronavirus treatment, the nation's top infectious disease expert said Wednesday
Gilead's experimental drug remdesivir may be the first effective coronavirus treatment, the nation's top infectious disease expert said Wednesday.
The vaccine expert cautioned that the drug was not a complete "knock out" in the study — the first randomized clinical trial to deliver results on a potential coroanvirus drug. But he said the findings are significant because "what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus." Trial participants who received remdesivir recovered in an average of 11 days compared to 15 days for patients in the control group, who received a placebo. Eight percent of remdesivir patients died during the trial versus 11 percent in the placebo group.
"That was not the end game, because building on that every year after we did better and better, we had better drugs of the same type, and we had drugs against different targets," Fauci said.
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