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Many European cities are facing a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 patients needing care in intensive care units, warned the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus.
” Last week, the number of cases (of COVID-19) was three times higher than during the first peak of March”, he remarks, according to Agerpres.
Regarding therapies, Tedros mentioned that Dexamethasone is currently the only treatment that has been shown to be effective in severe cases of COVID-19., a statement that comes shortly after the WHO announced substandard results for four therapies tested around the world in the study called ”Solidarity”.
In Romania, a box with 5 vials of dexamethasone for injection costs around 7-8 RON.
Remdesivir, no effect on reducing mortality
“In June we announced that we would discontinue the hydroxychloroquine studies, in July we announced that we would no longer use patients for the lopinavir / ritonavir trials, and now preliminary results show that two other test drugs, remdesivir and interferon, have little or no effect on reducing mortality from COVID-19” said the WHO Director-General.
So far, remdesivir has been the only treatment that appears to have an effect in the fight against Covid-19. For this reason, it was the only drug that was urgently approved to treat patients in the United States, including President Donald Trump.
The European Union recently agreed to pay Gilead more than € 1 billion for the supply of Remdesivir for six months, shortly before the final results of the largest clinical trial of the antiviral drug to treat Covid-19 disease were published.
But he added that the “Solidarity” study would continue, with about 2,000 patients recruited per month for clinical trials, noting that monoclonal antibody treatments or other antiviral drugs could also be tried.
For her part, the WHO technical director for COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said that while the increase in cases and hospitalizations in Europe is worrying, “We are not in the same situation as six months ago, because now we know more about this disease.”
“Diagnostic capacity has increased, health workers are more trained and experienced, and there is a public awareness of what needs to be done to protect ourselves, so we must put all of this together to help control the pandemic.” She explained.
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