Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious diseases expert, says remsdesivir reduces the recovery time for coronavirus patients by lisettevoytko
Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious diseases expert, said Wednesday in a press conference that preliminary data in a non-peer-reviewed federal trial of the antiviral remdesivir showed the drug blocked an enzyme the virus uses, resulting in a “better” mortality rate and shorter recoveries in coronavirus patients, and that it will be the “standard of care.
The trial showed that patients taking remdesivir had a shorter time to recovery at 11 days, while patients taking a placebo recovered in 15 days, according to Fauci. It’s a 31% improvement in time to recovery, which Fauci said is “very important, because it has proven that a drug can block this virus.”
“Whenever you have clear-cut evidence that a drug works, you have an ethical obligation to let the people in the placebo group know,” Fauci said, adding that’s why the announcement was being made.
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