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The experimental antiviral drug remdesivir has shown a “clear” effect in treating the new coronavirus in a clinical trial, Dr. Anthony Fauci, an epidemiologist and adviser to President Donald Trump, told AFP on Wednesday.
“The data shows that remdesivir has a clear, significant, and positive effect in reducing healing time” in patients with coronavirus, he told the White House. This proves that “a drug can counteract the virus,” said the crisis cell expert on the new coronavirus.
The clinical trial was conducted in association with the American Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Laboratory in Gilead. F.D.A. It intends to announce an emergency use permit for Remdesivir as early as Wednesday, according to a US administration official, quoted by The New York Times.
On the other hand, a study conducted in China, published Wednesday, according to which the drug remdesivir from Gilead does not have a clinically significant benefit against COVID-19, is not “an adequate study,” Dr. Fauci also appreciated.
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