国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Clinical trial shows remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19 patie_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Clinical trial shows remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19 patie

The patient volunteered to participate in the study at the first study site, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in February 2020, according to the NIAID.

A total of 68 sites ultimately joined the study, 47 in the United States and 21 in countries in Europe and Asia.

The trial, sponsored by the NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the first clinical trial launched in the United States to evaluate an experimental treatment for COVID-19.

Remdesivir, developed by American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, is an investigational broad-spectrum antiviral treatment administered via daily infusion for 10 days. It is not yet licensed or approved anywhere globally while multiple Phase 3 studies are ongoing to determine the safety and efficacy of the drug for the treatment of COVID-19.

Gilead also announced preliminary results of phase 3 trial of remdesivir in patients with severe COVID-19, showing more than half of patients in both 5-day and 10-day treatment groups were discharged from the hospital after two weeks.

The trial evaluated 5-day and 10-day dosing durations of remdesivir in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19. The study demonstrated that patients receiving a 10-day treatment course of remdesivir achieved similar improvement in clinical status compared with those taking a 5-day treatment course, according to Gilead Sciences.

"At Day 14, 64.5 percent of patients in the 5-day treatment group and 53.8 percent of patients in the 10-day treatment group achieved clinical recovery," the company said in a statement.