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George Thompson, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California Davis Medical Center, was part of the team that administered the drug, remdesivir, to a sickly American woman who tested positive for the virus on February 26.
'We thought they were going to pass away,' Thompson told Science magazine Friday about the patient - who was the first known 'community spread' case in the United States.
However, 36 hours after the woman was admitted to hospital, doctors decided to treat her with remdesivir, which is administered by intravenous drip and 'cripples an enzyme named RNA polymerase - used by many viruses to copy themselves'.
Because the patient was in critical condition, the doctors were able to get 'compassionate use permission' from the FDA to test remsdesivir outside a clinical trial setting.
Within a day, the woman saw a drop in her 'viral load' and her condition began to improve.
Thomson did not reveal whether the patient has been discharged from the hospital due to privacy concerns, but stated that she is 'doing well'.
Similarly, remsdesivir helped 14 Americans who tested positive for coronavirus after they traveled on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Richard Childs, an assistant surgeon general and lung specialist at the National Institutes of Health, told
The Wall Street Journal Friday that the patients were treated with the experimental drug in a Japanese hospital.
Childs described the patients as 'critically ill people and their average age is 75'.
'Many of them were probably going to die in a short amount of time, and two weeks later nobody has died and more than half of them have recovered. It's just absolutely amazing,' he remarked.
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