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Remdesivir, the virus treatment given to Trump, gets formal US approval – Sydney Morning Herald
Remdesivir, which was given to President Donald Trump this month, becomes the first drug to obtain formal clearance in the US for treating the coronavirus.
The US Food and Drug Administration approved Gilead Sciences’s antiviral therapy remdesivir on Thursday (US time), making it the first drug to obtain formal clearance for treating the coronavirus.
Regulators had granted an emergency-use authorisation for remdesivir earlier this year, and since then the drug has become a widely used therapy in hospitalised COVID-19 patients. It was given to President Donald Trump this month when he was diagnosed with the virus.
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