WHO advises against Gilead's remdesivir for all hospitalised COVID-19 patients

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Gilead’s drug remdesivir is not recommended for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, regardless of how ill they are, as there is no evidence it improves survival or reduces the need for ventilation, a World Health Organization panel said on Friday.

“The ... panel found a lack of evidence that remdesivir improved outcomes that matter to patients such as reduced mortality, need for mechanical ventilation, time to clinical improvement, and others,” the guideline said.

The advice is another setback for the drug, which grabbed worldwide attention as a potentially effective treatment for COVID-19 in the summer after early trials showed some promise.

At the end of October, Gilead cut its 2020 revenue forecast, citing lower-than-expected demand and difficulty in predicting sales of remdesivir.

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November 19, 2020 8:06 PM Updated 42 minutes ago
By Kate Kelland


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[KWR65]

1. This will be the same results of the so called vaccines for covid-19

There is no vaccine or cure for covid-19

[PSPS]

2. That does not seem to be true

Remdesivir was always intended as a treatment to help alleviate some symptoms, not a vaccine or a "cure."

There are at least three very promising vaccines in the pipeline that potentially could be of great help in knocking it out after a period ot time, although the full results of their clinical trials haven't yet been released and reviewed. So far, at least, they look very promising to many, including Dr. Fauci.

[still_one]

3. Exactly. Remdesivir was never touted as a cure, but could reduce the COVID patients hospital

stay.

They use it for something it was never intended, and then say see it doesn’t work for something it wasn’t intended to do.

and you are right about vaccines also. Vaccines are not a cure but a preventive, and the efficacy of two leading messenger RNA vaccines have demonstrated a 95% efficacy which is quite remarkable

They still don’t now how long the protection lasts, and other things, but it is very promising as you said

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Bullshit. Don't spread harmful disinformation with no evidence. Put some up now, if you can. . . nt

[kiri]

6. this may be a treatment for coivid

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214587176

discovered a link between fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, and sepsis, when the immune system creates too many inflammatory molecules.

administering the antidepressant could prevent serious complications with COVID, thought to occur from cytokine storms. They displayed impressive findings after a small clinical trial.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. tRump got Remdesivir at Walter Reed. . . . nt