No it's just a sign that they aren't comfortable running a full on controlled experiment yet. Only 2 deaths out of 113 severe in a week is far better than base

No it's just a sign that they aren't comfortable running a full on controlled experiment yet. Only 2 deaths out of 113 severe in a week is far better than baseline. There's also a recently released monkey study showing huge improvements, so it's more likely than not remdesivir works (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.043166v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.043166v1)