The antiviral drug remdesivir will be tested with children suffering from Covid-19 by MattRyanPerez
Gilead Sciences will begin evaluating the effectiveness of the antiviral remdesivir in hospitalized pediatric patients with moderate-to-severe cases of Covid-19, the company said in a statementOne vial of the drug Remdesivir lies during a press conference about the start of a study with theEbola drug Remdesivir in particularly severely ill patients at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, northern Germany on April 8, 2020, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Remdesivir has emerged as a potentially effective therapeutic against Covid-19, with a peer-reviewed study published in in the New England Journal of Medicine finding that the drug reduced median recovery time from the coronavirus from 15 days to 11.Remdesivir is currently the only drug with emergency use authorization to treat Covid-19 after the Food and Drug Administration withdrew authorization this week for two antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.While the elderly are the most affected by the coronavirus, children can still contract the disease, though symptoms are typically milder.
called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children . Symptoms are similar to a condition known as Kawasaki disease, which causes inflammation in walls of blood vessels. Many patients that contracted MIS-C also have antibodies indicating a prior infection of Covid-19.Hydroxychloroquine lost its emergency use order because the FDA determined its benefits were outweighed by potentially serious side effects.
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