The US has started human testing of a drug to treat the novel coronavirus
Hope for treating the novel coronavirus could be on the horizon, as the first US study of a drug to treat the illness is underway, CNN reported.
The source reminds that so far, there is no cure or vaccine for the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed over 2,700 worldwide in the past few months.
News of the drug testing came Tuesday, just as a federal health official warned that the virus will eventually start spreading in US communities.
A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir in adults diagnosed with coronavirus started at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health said.