Large COVID-19 study hints at potential benefit of experimental drug remdesivir.
, found remdesivir had no effect on reducing COVID-19 death rates, or even on making people feel better faster.
The analysis did not compare remdesivir to a placebo, so it's impossible to determine whether any benefits were due to the drug or whether patients would have improved on their own. "This is not the outcome we hoped for," Bin Cao, study author and a professor at China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Capital Medical University in China, said in a press release."We are mindful that we were only able to enroll 237 of the target 453 patients because the COVID-19 outbreak was brought under control in Wuhan."for full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak
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