Gilead Says Veklury Gets EUA From FDA to Treat Patients With Moderate Covid-19
August 28 2020 - 5:42PM
Dow Jones News
By Stephen Nakrosis
Gilead Sciences, Inc. on Friday said the Food and Drug
Administration expanded the Emergency Use Authorization for
Veklury, permitting use of the investigational antiviral Veklury,
or remdesivir, to treat all hospitalized patients with
Covid-19.
Previously, the EUA allowed for the use of Veklury to treat
patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19, the company said.
Merdad Parsey, the company's chief medical officer, said "As we
learn more about Covid-19 and we further establish the efficacy and
safety profile of Veklury, we see benefit to making the drug
available to patients at earlier stages of the disease. Today's
action by the FDA enables physicians to consider a broader range of
eligible patients to potentially receive Veklury."
Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 28, 2020 17:27 ET (21:27 GMT)
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