World's Hope For Covid-19 Treatment, Gilead's Antiviral Remdesivir, Failures in First Human Trial
As per the report, trial showed the antiviral remdesivir did not improve patients health condition or reduce the pathogen's presence in the bloodstream, Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental coronavirus drug failures its first clinical trial, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, Researchers studied 237 patients, giving the drug to 158 and comparing their progress with the remaining 79. The drug also showed significant side effects in some, which meant 18 patients were taken off it, according to the Financial Times. Interest in Gilead's drug had been high as there are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, and doctors are desperate for anything that might alter the course of the disease that attacks the lungs and can shut down other organs in extremely severe cases. The company is testing the drug in multiple trials and highly anticipated trial results from a study involving 400 patients hospitalized with severe cases of
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