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this is from an RCT. This data is way more powerful than compassionate use data, those are so noisy that are almost impossible to see any signal.
Amazing how drugs don't do so well when subjected to a proper trial.
First rule of medicine: there’s never a silver bullet

That said, I personally know doctors here in the Bay Area who were part of the remedsivir trial and it does seem to genuinely help in very specific cases.

2 out of 3 candidates fail in Phase II. We wish we could predict which ones succeed, and still we can't. It's a complete mystery.
It is bizarre the study was out of China and was temporarily posted on the WHO’s website.