Depending on the specifics of "time to recover", this could be pretty good news. My wife became symptomatic with COVID-19 about a month ago. For the first ~8 d

Depending on the specifics of "time to recover", this could be pretty good news. My wife became symptomatic with COVID-19 about a month ago. For the first ~8 days, she was in pretty rough shape, although happily she didn't need hospitalization. But the pace of recovery is slower than I've seen with any flu. She still needs to significantly limit her activity or else her pulse gets high and she gets short of breath. (The effect is much greater than you'd expect from someone being bedridden for 8 days.) Each day is a little better, so hopefully she'll make a full recovery. But if I had to spitball a linear extrapolation of when she'll be back to 100%, I'd say another few weeks at the soonest. Obviously we'd rather have a drug that saves lives and/or prevents long-term disability. But if remdesivir could have hastened my wife's recovery by several weeks, our kids and my professional work would have been much better off.