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The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to issue an authorization to allow the emergency use of the drug remdesivir, developed by the pharmaceutical company Gilead, to treat COVID-19, as revealed by The New York Times on Wednesday .

The newspaper added that the drug may be the first to be approved to treat the disease caused by the new coronavirus, which already affects more than a million people in the United States, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.

The outlet, which said it had obtained the information from a prominent member of the US administration, also stressed that an FDA emergency authorization is not equivalent to a formal approval, but that when the country's authorities declare a national health emergency, such as This has been the case, certain medications can be authorized if there are no other alternatives.

In a statement received by CNN television, the FDA admitted that it is in talks with Gilead to make the drug available to patients "as soon as possible."

The planned FDA decision is known shortly after Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (NIAID), to announce encouraging results in the remdesivir clinical trial.

Specifically, Fauci said that patients affected by the coronavirus who took this drug, compared with those who received a placebo, showed a faster improvement , but that there was no notable difference in the number of deceased patients.

The full report of the drug has not yet been published, and the study has also not been reviewed by other scientists.

Unlike other drugs that have been investigated to treat coronavirus, such as hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir is not approved to treat any other disease.

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