Dr. Anthony Fauci touts the results of a trial examining an experimental drug treatment for the novel coronavirus, calling it “good news.” The trial has not yet been peer-reviewed but is being submitted to a journal for review, Fauci says.
A randomized, international trial of the drug remdesivir had resulted in"quite good news," shortening the period patients experienced symptoms and potentially slightly reducing the mortality rate, according to Fauci, a member of the White House's coronavirus task force and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which sponsored the trial.
The trial had 1,063 patients spread across 22 countries, including the U.S., and the first participant was an American who had been quarantined on the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship wracked by the virus that was docked in Japan earlier this year, according to the NIAID. One vial of the drug Remdesivir is viewed at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, northern Germany on April 8, 2020, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.Fauci said the data so far showed the drug, made by the biotech company Gilead Sciences, had"a clear-cut, significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.
Announcing the results was accelerated because of the ethical obligation to let patients in trial control groups know about this drug"so that they can have access," Fauci said.MORE: Coronavirus updates: 'We're not out of the woods yet,' Cuomo says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases speaks as President Donald Trump meets with Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 29, 2020.
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