The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) yesterday published the results of two randomized, controlled trials on two medications for the treatment of COVID-19, one supporting previous studies that found that Gilead Sciences' antiviral drug remdesivir helps patients recover faster and one adding to mounting evidence that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is no better than a placebo at preventing death in hospital patients.Faster recovery, fewer interventions for remdesivirThe first study, by the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT-1) Study Group, randomly assigned 1,062 hospitalized COVID-19 patients with lower respiratory tract infections to receive either a placebo or 200 milligrams (mg) of intravenous remdesivir followed by