{"id":1459,"date":"2020-10-12T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2020-10-12T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:18:26","slug":"compassionate-use-of-remdesivir-in-pregnant-women-with-severe-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/12\/compassionate-use-of-remdesivir-in-pregnant-women-with-severe-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassionate Use of Remdesivir in Pregnant Women with Severe Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Among 86 pregnant and postpartum women with severe COVID-19 who received compassionate use of remdesivir, recovery rates were high (93% for pregnant women and 89% for postpartum women) and there were few serious adverse events (16% of all participants). At the beginning of treatment with remdesivir, 40% of pregnant women required invasive ventilation, compared to 95% of postpartum women. At 28-day follow-up, 93% of pregnant women who had been on mechanical ventilation had been extubated, 93% had recovered, and 90% were discharged. Among postpartum women, 89% had been extubated, 89% had recovered, and 84% were discharged. <em>[EDITORIAL NOTE: The lack of a comparable group that did not receive remdesivir<\/em><em> means that it is not possible to evaluate the efficacy of treatment in this study population.]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Burwick et al. (Oct 8, 2020). Compassionate Use of Remdesivir in Pregnant Women with Severe Covid-19. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1466\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1466<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 86 pregnant and postpartum women with severe COVID-19 who received compassionate use of remdesivir, recovery rates were high (93% for pregnant women and 89% for postpartum women) and there were few serious adverse events (16% of all participants). At the beginning of treatment with remdesivir, 40% of pregnant women required invasive ventilation, compared to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/12\/compassionate-use-of-remdesivir-in-pregnant-women-with-severe-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}