{"id":5383,"date":"2024-04-17T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T17:42:04","slug":"remdesivir-tied-to-25-lower-risk-of-in-hospital-death-in-adults-with-covid-and-no-added-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/remdesivir-tied-to-25-lower-risk-of-in-hospital-death-in-adults-with-covid-and-no-added-oxygen\/","title":{"rendered":"Remdesivir tied to 25% lower risk of in-hospital death in adults with COVID and no added oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The antiviral drug remdesivir cut death rates 17% to 25% in adults hospitalized for COVID-19 who didn\u2019t require supplemental oxygen at admission, suggests a large US <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofae202\/7646755\" lang=\"en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published yesterday in <em>Open Forum Infectious Diseases<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The study, led by researchers from remdesivir (Veklury) developer Gilead Sciences, used a multicenter US hospital billing database to compare rates of in-hospital death among 58,188 patients on room air who received at least one dose of remdesivir within the first 2&nbsp;days of hospital admission and 17,574 matched patients not given the drug. The drug is most effective when given early in infection, when viral replication is most active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The antiviral drug remdesivir cut death rates 17% to 25% in adults hospitalized for COVID-19 who didn\u2019t require supplemental oxygen at admission, suggests a large US <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofae202\/7646755\" lang=\"en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published yesterday in <em>Open Forum Infectious Diseases<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The study, led by researchers from remdesivir (Veklury) developer Gilead Sciences, used a multicenter US hospital billing database to compare rates of in-hospital death among 58,188 patients on room air who received at least one dose of remdesivir within the first 2&nbsp;days of hospital admission and 17,574 matched patients not given the drug. The drug is most effective when given early in infection, when viral replication is most active.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/remdesivir-tied-to-25-lower-risk-of-in-hospital-death-in-adults-with-covid-and-no-added-oxygen\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remdesivir tied to 25% lower risk of in-hospital death in adults with COVID and no added oxygen<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[473,18,1062,537,8,14,51],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antiviral-drugs","tag-covid-19","tag-gilead-sciences","tag-remdesivir","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}