Steroid now used to treat Covid patients

JAPAN HAS approved a second drug – the inexpensive steroid dexamethasone - for the treatment of Covid-19 patients following the use of Remdesivir, reports said.

Gilead’s Remdesivir Begins Trials as Researchers Publish Positive In Vitro Results

CLINICAL TRIALS of Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir have begun in Wuhan, China, the center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a day after Chinese researchers recommended that the antiviral drug candidate remdesivir be assessed in humans as a potential treatment for 2019-nCoV.

China’s National Medical Products Administration has approved applications by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to conduct trials evaluating remdesivir.