Remdesivir shortens recovery time for novel coronavirus patients, but the experimental drug conventionally used for treating Ebola has limited efficacy in severe cases, health experts said.
The trial study, the first clinical trial launched in the United States to evaluate an experimental treatment for COVID-19, was conducted on a total of 1,063 patients.
South Korea has yet to complete its clinical tests on Remdesivir, but the ministry cited the NIH report to allow the imports. However, some medical experts pointed out that Remdesivir would have limited efficacy in Asian patients, compared with Caucasians. Others, however, say that the result of the NIH report is due to the fact that the trials mostly involved Caucasians, as only 134 out of 1,064 participants were Asians.“The result is due to the fact that there were not that many Asian patients participating in the trials,” said Kim Woo-ju, an infectious disease specialist at Seoul’s Korea University Hospital.
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