Prognosis

Scientists Defend Trial Questioning Remdesivir’s Covid Benefits

  • WHO study data have ‘not undergone rigorous review’: Gilead
  • Earlier U.S. trial had shown drug reduced recovery times

    

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Scientists defended a World Health Organization trial showing that the antiviral treatment remdesivir doesn’t save the lives of Covid-19 patients after drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. criticized the findings.