Texas researchers studying the inner workings of remdesivir say their findings could be used to develop similar but more powerful drugs to help fight the coronavirus.
A bottle containing the drug remdesivir is held by a health worker in Debrecen, Hungary, last October. (Zsolt Czegledi/MTI via AP, File)
(CN) — New science on how exactly the widely used antiviral drug remdesivir fights Covid-19 could lead to more powerful and easier-to-administer drugs of the same type, researchers said in a study published Thursday.
Remdesivir is still the only antiviral drug approved in the U.S. to treat Covid-19, though there are multiple other drugs of a different variety called monoclonal antibodies being used to treat patients with mild cases.