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Coronavirus: Eli Lilly starts testing; Gilead drug shows positive signs

Lilly said it currently does not anticipate shortages for any of its medicines, including baricitinib

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FILE PHOTO: Laboratory technicians, seen behind a blue-tinted window, work on testing patient samples for the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, at the Pathologists Lancet Kenya laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya | Photo: PTI

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US Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co said on Friday that it had started clinical testing of therapies for the illness caused by the coronavirus. The company said it had entered into an agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the baricitinib drug to examine its efficacy and safety as a potential treatment for hospitalized patients diagnosed with Covid-19.
Lilly had previously been testing Olumiant or baricitinib drug as a treatment for atopic dermatitis.

The study will start this month in the United States and will then expand to other sites in Europe and

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