Antiviral drug remdesivir shows promise in trial on monkeys with coronavirus
"Early treatment with the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir significantly reduced clinical disease and damage to the lungs of rhesus macaques infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19," said a press release from the National Institutes of Health, which ran the experiment.
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