Is remdesivir a miracle drug to cure coronavirus? Don't get your hopes up yet
- Written by Nial Wheate, Associate Professor | Program Director, Undergraduate Pharmacy, University of Sydney
The race is on to find a drug that is both effective and safe for treating COVID-19, which has spread to 3.1 million infections and caused 220,000 deaths worldwide.
This week, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases released findings of a clinical trial of the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir. This showed COVID-19...