How remdesivir, new hope for COVID-19 patients, was resurrected - The Boston Globe

How remdesivir, new hope for COVID-19 patients, was resurrected - The Boston Globe: Remdesivir, an antiviral drug designed to treat both hepatitis and a common respiratory virus, seemed fated to join thousands of other failed medications after proving useless against those diseases. The drug was consigned to the pharmaceutical scrap heap, all but forgotten by the scientists who once championed it.