{"id":29359,"date":"2020-11-20T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29359"},"modified":"2020-11-20T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:18:39","slug":"who-panel-recommends-against-use-of-remdesivir-for-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29359","title":{"rendered":"WHO panel recommends against use of remdesivir for COVID-19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A World Health Organization (WHO) panel recommended against using remdesivir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 because there is no evidence it improves survival.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation breaks with the Trump administration, as remdesivir recently became the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO panel also found the drug, which is delivered intravenously, had no real impact on whether patients would need to be put on ventilators.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation from the WHO Guideline Development Group was published late Thursday night in the international journal The BMJ.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation was based on data from four international randomized trials involving more than 7,000 patients hospitalized for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Health Organization (WHO) panel&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29360,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359\/revisions\/29360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}