Coronavirus patients responding to Gilead drug Remdesivir
Channel: Breaking News
Date: 2020-04-17

Shares of Gilead Sciences were up more than 14 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday after a report by STAT that a recent clinical trial of Gilead Sciences' Remdesivir, an antiviral medicine used as a potential treatment for Ebola, found rapid recoveries in coronavirus patients' fever and respiratory symptoms.
The trial, conducted by the University of Chicago Medicine, found nearly all patients who were given daily infusions of Remdesivir were discharged from the hospital in less than a week. The university recruited 125 coronavirus patients, 113 of which had "severe disease" into two clinical trials to assess five and 10-day treatment courses of the drug.