{"id":114546,"date":"2020-10-16T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/big-global-study-finds-remdesivir-doesnt-help-covid-19-patients"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:22:24","slug":"big-global-study-finds-remdesivir-doesnt-help-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/big-global-study-finds-remdesivir-doesnt-help-covid-19-patients","title":{"rendered":"Big global study finds remdesivir doesn\u2019t help Covid-19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-global-study-finds-remdesivir-doesnt-help-covid-19-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14 (CNN)In a study it described as both conclusive and disappointing, the World Health Organization said the antiviral drug remdesivir has \u201clittle or no effect on mortality\u201d for patients hospitalized with coronavirus and it doesn\u2019t seem to help patients recover any faster, either.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, remdesivir has been the only drug that appeared to have specific effects for coronavirus. It was the only drug with an Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 from the US Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the WHO study have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.\ud83d\ude44 But WHO posted them to a pre-print server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd14 (CNN)In a study it described as both conclusive and disappointing, the World Health Organization said the antiviral drug remdesivir has \u201clittle or no effect on mortality\u201d for patients hospitalized with coronavirus and it doesn\u2019t seem to help patients recover any faster, either. Until now, remdesivir has been the only drug that appeared to have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114546","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}