Pfizer Inc signs multi-year deal to manufacture Gilead’s coronavirus antiviral remdesivir to boost production of the drug Pfizer Inc has signed a multi-year deal with Gilead Sciences Inc to manufacture and supply the antiviral remdesivir The drug is the only one approved in the US to treat coronavirus patients by emergency use after it was … Read more
The US government has bought up virtually the entire global supply of remdesivir, the only drug approved in the nation to treat coronavirus, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday. That means that any other country will be hard-pressed to get access to the potentially life-saving antiviral medication. Gilead Sciences, which makes … Read more
Experts say even $10 is too much for the US-made antiviral drug approved to treat the novel coronavirus. Gilead Sciences’ medication, remdesivir, was shown to help reduce patients’ hospital stays over a placebo, in a clinical trial run by the National Institutes of Health. Last week, it became the first drug approved by the US … Read more