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Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial
- maxharris 6y agoThat report came from a leak that has been misinterpreted, says Gilead: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/gilead-says-draft-of-coronavirus-treatment-results-contain-inappropriate-characterization-and-are-inconclusive.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/gilead-says-draft-of-coronav...
- booosh 6y agothis 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.
- LorenPechtel 6y agoAmazing how drugs don't do so well when subjected to a proper trial.
- foobarbazetc 6y agoFirst 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.
- HarryHirsch 6y ago2 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.
- somid3 6y agoIt is bizarre the study was out of China and was temporarily posted on the WHO’s website.