Remdesivir has ‘little or no effect’ on COVID-19: WHO study

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Remdesivir has ‘little or no effect’ on COVID-19: WHO study

The World Health Organization said it has found that the drug remdesivir and three other medications have little or no effect on patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Remdesivir had received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration as a potential coronavirus treatment. President Donald Trump also took the drug as part of a treatment regimen after he tested positive for COVID-19 this month.

The WHO study, which has not yet published in a peer-review journal, also examined hydroxychloroquine, interferon and the HIV combination of lopinavir and ritonavir.

“These remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir and Interferon regimens appeared to have little or no effect on hospitalized COVID-19, as indicated by overall mortality, initiation of ventilation and duration of hospital stay,” the WHO study states.

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“The mortality findings contain most of the randomized evidence on remdesivir and Interferon, and are consistent with meta-analyses of mortality in all major trials.”

The WHO said its study involved more than 11,200 patients at 405 hospitals in 30 countries.

The organization called the results of the study “disappointing and unpromising.” An earlier controlled study did show that remdesivir had shortened recovery time for hospitalized patients in the United States but did not help those with milder cases.

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