Gilead Exploring Outpatient Version of Experimental Virus Drug

May 1, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

Gilead Sciences Inc. is exploring ways to make its experimental Covid-19 medicine more broadly available, potentially treating patients in the outpatient setting, the company’s CEO said Friday.

Preliminary data released this week by the National Institutes of Health showed promising signs that remdesivir can speed up the recovery time for Covid-19 patients. But that study only tested the drug on the patients with a severe form of the disease, who received a daily infusion over 10 days. Daniel O’Day, Gilead’s CEO, said on NBC the company is looking at different ways of administering the medicine to make it available to ...

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