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WHO recommends doctors not use remdesivir to treat COVID-19; GILD -1.6%
- The World Health Organization is recommending against doctors using
Gilead Sciences' (NASDAQ:GILD) remdesivir (Veklury) to treat
hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
- Gilead shares are down 1.6% after hours.
- "There is currently no evidence that it improves survival or the need
for ventilation," a panel of experts convened by WHO says in *The BMJ.*
- That comes very shortly after regulators gave the drug a quick
approval for treating COVID-19 - and its use in treating President Trump
when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 early last month.
- A global WHO-sponsored trial, Solidarity, found that the drug didn't
reduce deaths, and the experts reviewed data from three other trials to
conclude remdesivir has "no meaningful effect" on time to clinical
improvement.
|Today, 7:24 PM|126 Comments
WHO recommends doctors not use remdesivir to treat COVID-19; GILD -1.6%
- The World Health Organization is recommending against doctors using
Gilead Sciences' (NASDAQ:GILD) remdesivir (Veklury) to treat
hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
- Gilead shares are down 1.6% after hours.
- "There is currently no evidence that it improves survival or the need
for ventilation," a panel of experts convened by WHO says in *The BMJ.*
- That comes very shortly after regulators gave the drug a quick
approval for treating COVID-19 - and its use in treating President Trump
when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 early last month.
- A global WHO-sponsored trial, Solidarity, found that the drug didn't
reduce deaths, and the experts reviewed data from three other trials to
conclude remdesivir has "no meaningful effect" on time to clinical
improvement.
|Today, 7:24 PM|126 Comments
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