Yep, look at them just talking up this drug and lying to the public!
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The antiviral drug, remdesivir, appears to modestly reduce recovery time for patients infected with the virus, the infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday. Though he warned that the study still needed to be peer-reviewed, he called it “a very important proof of concept, because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus.”
The F.D.A. also signaled that it would grant emergency approval of remdesivir, a senior administration official told The Times. That would allow patients to receive the drug under emergency conditions, in the absence of alternatives.
“Remdesivir is not a magic bullet, but it’s as good as we get right now,” one of the trial’s investigators told The Times.
The caveats: A separate, smaller study from China found that remdesivir had no significant effect on severely ill patients. And some scientists said they wanted to see the data from the new study before drawing conclusions; the fact that Dr. Fauci announced the initial results in a news conference, before the normal peer-review process, heightened scientists’ skepticism.
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