GENEVA : The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence" that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S.
President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no effect on severe cases, the U.N. health agency said Friday.The World Health Organization announced the long-awaited results of a six-month trial that endeavored to see if existing drugs might have an effect on the coronavirus.The study, which was not peer-reviewed, found that four treatments tested — remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir and interferon — had “ little or no effect" on whether or not patients died within about a month or whether hospitalized patients recovered.Most of those had already been ruled out.