Coronavirus medicine remdesivir just got its most important endorsement yet

[Chris Smith]

• A National Institutes of Health (NIH) trial involving more than 1,000 patients revealed that remdesivir can help COVID-19 patients recover faster.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the drug will become the standard of care for the novel coronavirus disease.
• The study hasn't been published or peer-reviewed and some questions still remain, but the early results seem very promising.
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We've been talking about remdesivir for quite a while since the novel coronavirus pandemic started. It's one of the proposed COVID-19 therapies that's been used in all sorts of trials around the world, a drug that has been initially developed to fight the Ebola virus. In the past few days, we saw remdesivir studies that delivered not-so-great news, but also leaked research that revealed the drug is quite promising at treating some COVID-19 patients. But it was Dr. Anthony Fauci who gave the biggest remdesivir endorsement on Wednesday. The drug is good news for COVID-19 patients and will become the standard of care in the US, where a study delivered relevant data about the drug's effectiveness against the novel virus. However, it's not all good news, as the drug might not be able to reduce the mortality rate.

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