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thewayneJoining 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
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-remdesivir/who-study-says-remdesivir-did-not-reduce-mortality-in-covid-19-patients-ft-idINL4N2H63XG
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Date: 2020-10-18 12:29 am (UTC)I suspect that the steroids were required, and that the combination of the steroids and the antibodies works much better than either alone. Monoclonal antibodies that are even the tiniest bit off cause allergic reactions and flu-like symptoms; suppressing your immune system is kinda a feature, under the circumstances. And they did this while he was in hospital so probably while he was in a full-on isolation ward and at low risk of anything opportunistic.
Massively risky but they seem to have gotten away with it.