All the below links and excerpts are in English.
coronavirus及びdrugsと入れてグーグル検索して出て来たリンクと当方作成の抜粋を取り急ぎ以下のとおり貼っておきます。
cf. Science and Technology 科学技術 Vol.11 ／ #Coronavirus #コロナウイルス Vol.13（pharmaceutical products 医薬品 Vol.4：drugs 治療薬）
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Drug Combination for Treatment of COVID-19 (11/19/2020) | FDA
…an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the drug baricitinib, in combination with remdesivir, for the treatment of suspected or laboratory confirmed COVID-19 in hospitalized adults and pediatric patients two years of age or older requiring supplemental oxygen, invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
… Baricitinib is not authorized or approved as a stand-alone treatment for COVID-19. …
Baricitinib is a janus kinase inhibitor, which blocks the activity of one or more of a specific family of enzymes, interfering with the pathway that leads to inflammation. Baricitinib is a prescription oral tablet medication that is FDA-approved (and sold under the brand name Olumiant) for the treatment of moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis. …
Remdesivir is an FDA-approved (and sold under the brand name Veklury) intravenous antiviral drug for use in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older and weighing at least 40 kilograms (about 88 pounds) for the treatment of COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. Remdesivir also remains authorized for emergency use for the treatment of suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in hospitalized pediatric patients weighing 3.5 kg (about 7.7 pounds) to less than 40 kg or hospitalized pediatric patients less than 12 years of age weighing at least 3.5 kg. …
… Possible side effects of baricitinib in combination with remdesivir include serious infections, blood clots, changes in certain lab test results and allergic reactions.
The EUA was issued to Eli Lilly and Company. …
Antiviral Drugs That Are Approved or Under Evaluation for the Treatment of COVID-19 (11/03/2020) | NIH
see Table 2
Remdesivir
Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine With or Without Azithromycin
Lopinavir/Ritonavir and Other HIV Protease Inhibitors
Ivermectin
The Latest Research on COVID-19 Treatments and Medications in the Pipeline (11/18/2020) | @GoodRx
… Remdesivir is also being studied in combination with other medications. Early results reported that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who got both remdesivir and baricitinib (Olumiant) recovered about 1 day faster than those who only got remdesivir. Additionally, patients had a 30% higher chance of clinical improvement at day 15 when taking both medications together. The full data has not been shared yet.
Not all remdesivir studies have been promising. On October 15, 2020, a large, randomized study from the World Health Organization (WHO) found that remdesivir had little or no effect on death rate in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The death rate was about 11% regardless of whether patients got remdesivir or not. These results have not been peer-reviewed yet. …
WHO suspends remdesivir from list of medicines (20/11/2020) | @RTE
… “The … panel found a lack of evidence that remdesivir improved outcomes that matter to patients such as reduced mortality, need for mechanical ventilation, time to clinical improvement, and others,” the guideline said. …
At the end of October, Gilead cut its 2020 revenue forecast, citing lower-than-expected demand and difficulty in predicting sales of remdesivir, which is also known as Veklury.
The antiviral is one of only two medicines currently authorised to treat Covid-19 patients across the world…
Experimental drug given to Trump to treat covid-19 wins FDA clearance: But Regeneron’s antibody treatment is expected to be in short supply. (11/21/2020) | @washingtonpost
… The drug, made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, is designed to prevent infected people from developing severe illness. Instead of waiting for the body to develop its own protective immune response, the drug imitates the body’s natural defenses. It is the second drug of this type — called a monoclonal antibody — to be cleared for treating covid-19. The FDA authorized Eli Lilly & Co.’s drug on Nov. 9.
Regeneron’s drug is a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies, called casirivimab and imdevimab. The FDA said in authorizing the cocktail that it may be effective in treating mild to moderate covid-19 in adults and children 12 or older, and is indicated for those at high risk of developing severe illness. Doctors hope the drugs will keep those patients from being hospitalized.
But as with the Lilly treatment, the Regeneron drug is a biological product that is complicated and time-consuming to make…
In a study published Oct. 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers said the Lilly cocktail lowered the risk of follow-up medical visits and reduced levels of virus in people with mild to moderate symptoms of covid-19. …
Through Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration effort to speed up treatments and vaccines, the government has bought 300,000 doses each from Lilly and Regeneron at a cost of about $1,250 and $1,500 per dose, respectively, with an option to buy hundreds of thousands more. But that comes as the nation is approaching 200,000 new coronavirus cases each day.
In a sign of how quickly the supply could be used up as the pandemic surges across the country, 40 percent of the doses of Lilly’s bamlanivimab has already been allocated to states. …
Rheumatoid arthritis drug appears to help Covid patients in ICU: Trial suggests that tocilizumab improves outcomes for critically ill patients, say researchers (19/11/2020) | @guardian
… Tocilizumab, a medicine that dampens down inflammation, improved outcomes for critically ill patients…
…if confirmed by more trial data, the drug will be on track to become only the second effective therapy for the sickest Covid patients, following positive results for the steroid dexamethasone earlier this year. …
Dexamethasone, which costs about £5 per dose, was found in trials to cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. It is now part of standard care for Covid patients in hospital.
Tocilizumab costs between £500 and £1000 depending on whether patients receive one or two doses. …
cf. Science and Technology 科学技術 Vol.14 ／ #Coronavirus #コロナウイルス Vol.15（pharmaceutical products 医薬品 Vol.6：drugs 治療薬）
SKI Complex Identified as Target for Antiviral Drugs to Combat Coronaviruses (11/20/2020) | @Contagion_Live
…the University of Maryland School of Medicine…
…a group of proteins which regulates certain aspects of normal functions within a cell. … also seems to be involved with the replication of infectious diseases such as influenza and coronaviruses. The complex aids with a virus’ ability to replicate its genetic material, or RNA, within the cell.
The complex was identified originally in yeast, and when present, degraded its viral RNA. …
