Why Gilead's coronavirus drug is not a "silver bullet"

[turbinetree]

Bob Herman

If you feel like you're suffering whiplash from the new, conflicting study data on Gilead Sciences' experimental coronavirus drug, remdesivir, you're not alone.

The big picture: Remdesivir could provide some help and lay the groundwork for more research, but this drug on its own does not appear to be any kind of "cure" for the novel coronavirus.

What's happening: Remdesivir helped coronavirus patients get out of the hospital modestly quicker, based on early reads of an important and rigorously designed trial run by the National Institutes of Health,

That could be encouraging for those who get sick.

https://www.axios.com/gilead-remdesivir-coronavirus-silver-bullet-2980e066-36d0-4d7b-9c18-5e599859637f.html

[DrToast]

1. It also doesn't my laundy

If we're discussing things it was never supposed to be.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Note: Some patients STOPPED early because of adverse events 12% versus 5% in placebo (Lancet). nt

[cyclonefence]

3. Are you trying to tell us

that there is no balm in Gilead?