US begins human testing for coronavirus drug - sm Posted: Feb 26th, 2020 - 10:34 am
OMAHA, Neb. — Hope for treating the novel coronavirus could be on the horizon, as the first U.S. study of a drug to treat the illness is underway.
So far, there is no cure or vaccine for the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed over 2,700 worldwide in the past few months.
News of the drug testing came Tuesday, just as a federal health official warned that the virus will eventually start spreading in U.S. communities.
A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir in adults diagnosed with coronavirus started at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health said.
The first participant is an American who was evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan.
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