Indian-American-Led Clinical Trial of Remdesivir in COVID-19 Treatment
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# 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 14 ISSUE 18 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● MAY 01 - 07, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news AMERICA Indian-American-led clinical trial of remdesivir UNITED AGAINST in COVID-19 treatment shows positive results COVID-19 'A drug can block this virus': Dr. Fauci hails Covid-19 treatment breakthrough FOSTER CITY, CA (TIP): The phase preliminary results showed that 50 per KEEP SAFE three clinical trial of the antiviral drug cent of the COVID-19 patients treated ● Follow President Trump's remdesivir, led by a team of with a 5-day dosage of remdesivir Guidelines on Coronavirus investigators including an Indian- improved and more than half were ● Observe Social Distancing American physician, for the treatment of discharged from the hospital within two ● Wash Hands Frequently the coronavirus patients has shown weeks. A phase three clinical trial is said ● No Panic Buying positive results, a US pharma company to be the final step in the process of the ● No Price Gouging announced on Wednesday, April 29. drug approval. 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Story on Page - 12 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 CORONAVIRUS CRISIS FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 DEAD VIRUS PARTICLES MAY AFFECT TEST RESULT After over 26,700 deaths, PM oronavirus patients who remain positive weeks after diagnosis may harbour dead virus Cparticles that can’t be distinguished from Boris says UK is past peak infectious ones in tests, scientists in South Korea found. The virus dies one to two weeks after infecting and LONDON (TIP): The proliferating inside respiratory cells, doctors at the death toll in the United National Medical Center in Seoul said. Kingdom from TRACKING THE VIRUS Pieces of the virus’s RNA may remain in cells and coronavirus was 26,711 on be detected by a nucleic acid test a month or two after Thursday, but a slower infection, underscoring the limitation of Covid-19 rate of new infections and GLOBAL INDIA testing, they said. dwindling rate of deaths Some Covid-19 patients have continued to test prompted Prime Minister Cases Deaths Cases Deaths positive over more than a month, said Peter Boris Johnson to declare Collignon, a professor of clinical medicine at the that the country is past 3,308,290 234,108 35,043 1,147 Australian National University Medical School in the peak. Canberra. Addressing the daily It’s possible that the virus detected in these patients briefing for the first time isn’t viable or capable of causing an infection, “but we after returning to office, need better animal models to see if it’s dead or alive,” Johnson, who had a brush he said. with death after How long an individual excretes infectious virus in contracting the virus, said their respiratory secretions and faecal matter is key he was “very, very lucky” to determining the optimal time an infected person when he was admitted to should self-isolate or be quarantined. Previous studies the intensive care unit, indicate that very ill patients remain infectious but regretted that many longer than people who experience a mild illness. people had lost their lives that. ‘MAJOR STRATEGIC He said: “Today the number of Covid hospital ACHIEVEMENT’: XI JINPING admissions is falling. The number of patients in ICU HAILS CHINA’S COVID-19 BATTLE is falling. We have so far succeeded in the first and BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping has most important task we termed China’s battle against Covid-19 as a major set ourselves as a nation. strategic achievement, as the ruling Communist To avoid the tragedy that Party is all set to hold the postponed Parliament engulfed other parts of session on May 22 amid a steady decline in the the world. Because at no coronavirus cases. China’s National Health stage has our NHS been Commission (NHC) on Thursday said the country overwhelmed”. reported only four new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Five mega hospitals COVID-19 CURVE IN BRAZIL ON THE RISE, Wednesday,taking the total number to 82,862, while no were quickly set up with death due to the disease was registered. The virus has help from the military,but DEATH TOLL HITS 5000 claimed 4,633 lives in the country. after admissions slowed, China’s arduous efforts to contain the coronavirus the NHS was left with razil saw the total number of have brought a decisive outcome to the fight of considerable capacity. deaths due to coronavirus surpass defending Hubei and its capital city Wuhan, Xi told a Figures released on B5,000 on Tuesday after reporting high-powered Central Committee meeting of the Friday said the number 474 deaths over the past 24 hours, making ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) on cases across settings in its overall pandemic-related toll the Wednesday. the UK were 171,253. ninth-highest worldwide. The nationwide battle against the epidemic has Johnson said: “And it is In contrast to other parts of the world, gained major strategic achievements, the state-run thanks to that massive Brazil’s coronavirus curve is climbing, Xinhua news agency quoted Xi as saying. Xi said collective effort to shield Health Minister Nelson Teich announced Hubei, including Wuhan, should continue the NHS that we avoided during a news conference Tuesday. As of strengthening community-level epidemic prevention an uncontrollable and Tuesday, the country had counted nearly and control. He asked officials to make efforts to catastrophic epidemic 72,000 positive cases, 5,017 deaths, and a contain the virus case at Heilongjiang Province where the reasonable 7% death rate. crowded bakeries and markets as a bordering Russia, where a large number of Chinese worst case scenario was When asked during the same news rebellious gesture. returning from Russian cities were tested positive for 500,000 deaths. And so I conference about mounting fatalities, Even as increasing numbers of coronavirus. can confirm today for the President Jair Bolsonaro answered, “So Brazilians fall victim to the virus, some first time that we are past what? What do you want me to do about businesses across the country have taken Antiviral drug could hold promise the peak of this disease. it?” before joking that even though his Bolsonaro’s lead. Popular clothing store We are past the peak and middle name means messiah in Hering announced Tuesday it would in fight against Covid-19: Study we are on the downward Portuguese, “I can’t make miracles.” immediately reopen their 104 stores, and slope”. The leader has refused to follow World more than 50 shopping malls are back in NEW DELHI (TIP): An investigational antiviral Russia’s Coronavirus cases Health Organization guidance on business, welcoming crowds of masked drug could hold promise in devising a treatment for combating the virus throughout the consumers. Covid-19. In a trial, evaluating 5-day and 10-day dosing surpass 100,000 outbreak. On the domestic front, he’s In other places in the country, the durations of the drug remdesivir in coronavirus Russia’s coronavirus criticized governors who called for outbreak is ravaging fragile health patients, it was found that the administration of the caseload surpassed quarantines, fired his health minister for systems: hospitals overwhelmed, and drug in patients with a severe manifestation of Covid- 100,000 on Thursday, with advocating for restrictions and beds and ventilators in short supply. 19 achieved improvement. the number of deaths containment measures, and personally Images of hastily-dug cemetery plots in “The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, exceeding 1,000.