Gilead Sciences: Phase 3 trial shows significantly greater clinical improvement on 5-day Remdesivir treatment

Gilead Sciences announced the results from the phase three trial of Remdesivir in patients with moderate COVID-19 infection. Below are key takeaways, as reported by Reuters.

"Phase 3 trial demonstrates a 5-day treatment course of Remdesivir resulted in significantly greater clinical improvement vs standard of care alone."

"Remdesivir was generally well-tolerated in both 5-day and 10-day treatment groups."

"Non-statistically significant increases in clinical worsening/death observed in the standard of care only group compared with Remdesivir groups."

"Study demonstrated that patients in the 5-day Remdesivir treatment group were 65% more likely to have clinical improvement at day 11."

"Odds of improvement in clinical status with a 10-day course of Remdesivir were trending toward but not reaching statistical significance."

"Gilead Sciences Inc plans to submit full data from phase 3 simple trial of Remdesivir for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in coming weeks."

"At day 11, more proportion of patients in the 5-day group of Remdesivir met improvement in clinical status vs standard of care group."

"No new safety signals were identified with Remdesivir across either treatment group."

Market reaction

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