{"id":105547,"date":"2020-04-16T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/report-covid-19-patients-recovering-quickly-after-getting-experimental-drug"},"modified":"2020-04-16T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:02:19","slug":"report-covid-19-patients-recovering-quickly-after-getting-experimental-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/report-covid-19-patients-recovering-quickly-after-getting-experimental-drug","title":{"rendered":"Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after getting experimental drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-covid-19-patients-recovering-quickly-after-getting-experimental-drug2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, STAT News reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and fever, but were able to leave the hospital after less than a week of treatment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">STAT quoted the doctor<\/a> leading the trial as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best news is that most of our patients have already been discharged, which is great. We\u2019ve only had two patients perish,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicagomedicine.org\/find-a-physician\/physician\/kathleen-mullane\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Kathleen Mullane<\/a>, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago who is leading the clinical trial, said in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, STAT News reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial. The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and fever, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}