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https://fortune.com/2020/02/25/coron...rial-covid-19/

UNMC in Omaha conducting trials of the vaccine.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed on Tuesday that the first U.S. clinical trial for a coronavirus treatment has launched at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska. The experimental therapy is biotech giant Gilead's remdesivir, an antiviral with the potential to treat a host of pathogens—including COVID-19, the disease caused by the new, novel coronavirus strain.

The treatment could hold real promise as coronavirus infections and deaths outside of China continue to swell. "There is only one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy and that’s remdesivir," said WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward during a press conference in Beijing on Monday. The drug is already being enlisted in clinical trials in China.

The NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will be the trial's regulatory sponsor. While remdesivir is already being tested in other countries (and has previously been tested in other forms of coronavirus, including MERS and SARS) this will be the first time that a so-called "gold standard" trial of the treatment will be tested in America.

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