FDA expands emergency use of Gilead's remdesivir in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

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Gilead Inc said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization of its experimental antiviral COVID-19 treatment, remdesivir, to allow its use in all hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

FILE PHOTO: A Gilead Sciences, Inc. logo is seen outside the company headquarters in Foster City, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

- Gilead Inc said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization of its experimental antiviral COVID-19 treatment, remdesivir, to allow its use in all hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drug was authorized in May for use in patients with a severe form of the illness, after trial data showed the antiviral drug helped shorten hospital recovery time. Patients with more moderate COVID-19 were shown in studies to have modest benefit after being given the drug, according to a study published last week.

The FDA said in a press release that it had concluded that remdesivir may be effective to treat the disease and the potential benefits outweigh the risks. Reporting by Michael Erman in Maplewood, N.J., and Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli and Leslie Adler

 

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Anonymo14507331 psst. Reuters. You might wanna include the bit about doctors being infuriated because they haven't shown efficacy. but i get it ppl got stocks to trade. let's just burn down the world, yeah?

May helps save life from viruses inflicting

Stop playing politics!!!!

gotta invest on those placebos, god forbid using that money on something like research and bettering working conditions for nurses.

Fauci and Gates have ties to Remdesivir so this shouldn’t surprise anyone....

How much is remdesivir going to cost patients?

More good news. Interesting that the other news agencies don't even mention this.

Anything to do with the fact that their stock is back to pre pandemic level?

No thanks im taking chloroquine

Gilead? Handmaid’s Tale

And so it begins.

Wtf

How much did they pay Dr Hahn for this order?

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