
EXPERT REACTION: Remdesivir for COVID19 - does it work?
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The US National insitute of Health has announced the preliminary results of a trial which showed that advanced COVID-19 patients who received remdesivir recovered faster than similar patients who received a placebo. The results from the randomised, controlled trial involving 1063 patients, are in contrast to a separate smaller trial published overnight, which showed no clinical benefit for remdesivir in COVID-19. So does it work or not? Below Australian experts comment.
Organisation/s: The Australian National University, The University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney
Funder: NIH study is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
Lancet study was supported by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Emergency Project of COVID-19 (2020HY320001); Major Projects of National Science and Technology on New Drug Creation and Development (2020ZX09201012); the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC1200102); and the Beijing Science and Technology Project (Z19110700660000). TJ is funded by a National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Research Fellowship (2015-08-001). PH is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the UK Department for International Development [215091/Z/18/Z], the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1209135], and NIHR [200907].
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