Is remdesivir REALLY a wonder drug for coronavirus patients? Doubts cast over experimental Ebola pill as another major study finds it has NO benefit for the infected – despite a separate study showing ‘fantastic results’

Doubts have been cast over the promising COVID-19 drug remdesivir that has shown ‘fantastic results’, after another study found it had no benefit. Remdesivir was reported by US officials to have ‘clear-cut’ evidence that it can help people recover from COVID-19, shortening the time of recovery. Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, said unpublished results from an international study of 1,000 people showed the drug ‘could block the virus’. The results garnered huge traction overnight, and stocks for Gilead Sciences – the pharmaceutical that makes remdesivir – soared amid hope of it being a cure. Other scientists were thrilled with the ‘encouraging’ and ‘fantastic’ result. Remdesivir is expected to be fast-tracked for licensing in the US, possibly as early as today. But a separate trial carried out in China produced disappointing results. It was a randomised controlled placebo trial, seen as the gold standard of scientific evidence, the same as that reported by US officials. The drug did not significantly benefit hospitalised patients because it did not speed up recovery or reduce deaths, compared with a dummy drug. The study was published in the prestigious Lancet medical journal and involved 237 people. It was stopped early because the researchers… Read full this story

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