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Two thirds of Covid-19 patients improve after Gilead drug
- dang 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836923
- bb88 7y ago> The analysis, published on Friday by the New England Journal of Medicine, does not detail what other treatments the 61 hospitalized patients were given and data on eight of them were not included — in one case because of a dosing error. It also did not include a control group. Also: >Twelve patients, 23%, had serious side effects including multiple-organ-dysfunction syndrome, septic shock and acute kidney injury. But: > 36 patients, or 68%, had an improvement in oxygen-support class, including more than half of the 30 patients receiving mechanical ventilation who had their breathing tubes removed.
- rediguanayum 7y agoSadly this is not a randomized, double blind trial meaning the that we don't know if the patients wouldn't have improved on their own. The underlying paper is this: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016?fbclid=IwAR0BKqopChXwoMI3eOmgunJ2a4dac9A_VQA5SDVVCbaYI2hOk0QA_7NO6QM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016?fbclid=I... Interesting reddit comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fyn1da/compassionate_use_of_remdesivir_for_patients_with/ https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fyn1da/compassiona...