Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial(ft.com)
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Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial
https://www.ft.com/content/0a4872d1-4cac-4040-846f-ce32daa09d99
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It is bizarre the study was out of China and was temporarily posted on the WHO’s website.
That report came from a leak that has been misinterpreted, says Gilead: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/gilead-says-draft-of-coronav...
this is from an RCT. This data is way more powerful than compassionate use data, those are so noisy that are almost impossible to see any signal.
Amazing how drugs don't do so well when subjected to a proper trial.
2 out of 3 candidates fail in Phase II. We wish we could predict which ones succeed, and still we can't. It's a complete mystery.
First rule of medicine: there’s never a silver bullet
That said, I personally know doctors here in the Bay Area who were part of the remedsivir trial and it does seem to genuinely help in very specific cases.
That said, I personally know doctors here in the Bay Area who were part of the remedsivir trial and it does seem to genuinely help in very specific cases.