Study shows Remdesivir ineffective against COVID-19

[thewayne]

Joining the ranks of hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir showed no reduction in outcomes or ventilator rates in people infected with COVID-19. Which is too bad, it would be nice to have more effective drugs against this virus. But anti-viral medication is tricky stuff, and we've only been fighting this particular bastard for ten months.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-remdesivir/who-study-says-remdesivir-did-not-reduce-mortality-in-covid-19-patients-ft-idINL4N2H63XG

Comments

[moxie_man]

Maine was one of the testing grounds for this and yes, from what little I heard/read, it didn't seem to do much to help. So, this report is of little surprise to me.

[thewayne]

Kind of a bummer, it would have been nice had it been effective.  But they were charging a small fortune per dose for it.  No surprise there.

[moxie_man]

Which is insulting (charging a fortune) as you, I, and other tax payers funded most of the research.

[thewayne]

What I would like to see is something like a cap on what you can charge, plus a repayment where a percentage of your profits goes back into the NIH research grant fund.