Today's COVID-19 News: May 4, 2020

Eiger Announces First COVID-19 Patients Dosed with Peginterferon Lambda

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals announced the first patients have been dosed in a Phase 2 study of peginterferon lambda (Lambda) in outpatients with mild COVID-19 at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Read more...

Convalescent Plasma Trial Begins as Potential Treatment for COVID-19

Montefiore Health System, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and NYU Langone have launched a new clinical trial to study if convalescent plasma, taken from people who have recovered from COVID-19, is effective in treating the disease. Read more...

FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Potential COVID-19 Treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in adults and children hospitalized with severe disease. Read more...

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