Remdesivir

[EngDawg]

It’s been posted in another thread, but I thought it deserved it own.

The trial showed a statistical significance for Remdesivir improving recovery times, 31% better than control group (p<.001). Mortality rate for the experimental group was 8.0% vs 11.6% for the control, but this difference was not significantly different (p=0.059). That’s not far off .05 so I’ll be interested to see what larger test data reveals.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-even...esivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19

If anyone can find a preprint, I’d love to see what the methods are and what the criteria for being admitted to the trial was. I suspect severe cases, but have not seen that confirmed.

 

[johnson86-1]

It’s been posted in another thread, but I thought it deserved it own.

The trial showed a statistical significance for Remdesivir improving recovery times, 31% better than control group (p<.001). Mortality rate for the experimental group was 8.0% vs 11.6% for the control, but this difference was not significantly different (p=0.059). That’s not far off .05 so I’ll be interested to see what larger test data reveals.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-even...esivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19

If anyone can find a preprint, I’d love to see what the methods are and what the criteria for being admitted to the trial was. I suspect severe cases, but have not seen that confirmed.

With a mortality rate of 11% for the control group, they are either giving it to people after they are on death's door or they are giving it to extremely high risk people.

 

[HailStout]

The participants required supplemental oxygen and had evidence of infiltrates on CXR. None of them required the ventilator at the time they enrolled them in the study. 11% death rate seems about right, unfortunately.