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Posted On: 04/16/2020 10:51:27 PM
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A rebuttal to the huge press release
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Experts had high hopes for remdesivir because it had shown it was effective in stopping the Ebola virus replicating.
That's the one thing in the article that's not quite right. In the very first Ebola outbreak when there were no suitable treatments available the death rate was 59%. In a four drug trial against Ebola remdesivir scored worst with a 53% death rate.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993
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