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

No new safety signals were identified with remdesivir across either treatment group.

"Multiple concurrent studies are helping inform whether remdesivir is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19 and how to best utilize the drug," said Merdad Parsey, chief medical officer of Gilead Sciences.

"While additional data are still needed, these results help to bring a clearer understanding of how treatment with remdesivir may be optimized, if proven safe and effective," said Aruna Subramanian, clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, and one of the lead investigators of the study.

Gilead has initiated two Phase 3 clinical studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of remdesivir in adults diagnosed with COVID-19.

These randomized, open-label, multicenter studies began enrolling patients in March 2020 and will enroll a total of approximately 1,000 patients in the initial phase of the studies, in countries with high prevalence of COVID-19, according to Gilead.

Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID, said Wednesday he was told data from the trial showed a "clear cut positive effect in diminishing time to recover."

Remdesivir has shown some promise in treating SARS and MERS, which are also caused by coronaviruses. As there is currently no cure for treating COVID-19, health authorities around the world have pinned hopes on drugs such as remdesivir to reduce the duration of COVID-19 in patients.