The United States is testing a new treatment for corona

Arab Weather - Aseel Al-Talaq - In light of the spread of the disease globally and its arrival in the Middle East to more than 27 countries around the world, US Secretary of Health Alex Azar announced that American doctors have developed a vaccine and a possible drug to treat the Corona virus.

US health official said Tuesday , 25 February , a treatment of anti-virus "remdesivir" large - scale effective in preventing many viruses from multiplying and began treatment for the first case in America by the first participant in the / US, where he will be the study of the treatment at the University Medical Center , American Experience " Nebraska ”in Omaha, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Remdesivir, this viral drug, was originally designed to treat Ebola. It performed poorly against this virus, but it showed by it the treatment of the new "Corona" virus, when the researchers gave the drug Remdisvir to the first case of coronavirus on a patient in the United States, and its symptoms improved significantly within 24 hours of its first dose.

And the drug helped stop the recurrence of viral cases.

Ultimately, physicians aim to recruit approximately 400 patients in the United States and abroad, from about 50 locations around the world.

The drug trial will not be open to people suffering from mild infections only, as it will only be eligible and available to people who are hospitalized due to pneumonia as a result of the Coronavirus after performing a number of tests to confirm before treatment.

André Khalil, who oversees the clinical trial, predicts initial results initially in a year or even less.

This treatment is not the only one to prevent infection, which has killed more than 2,700 people worldwide, who have been tested, but WHO officials said on Tuesday that research is still ongoing on the most effective treatment for the virus.