Adding to the public drama and confusion is a draft version of a study that apparently wasn’t supposed to be published but accidentally did get posted on the Internet. It showed that remdesivir didn’t help most Covid patients and caused serious side effects. The results were so troubling that the eighteen test subjects involved in the study were taken off the drug. The maker of remdesivir, Gilead, didn’t respond to my query about that, but has said publicly that it ended the controversial study because it couldn’t find enough volunteers to take part.
