The next question he is asked is about other already-approved drugs that might be useful for Covid. Fauci brings up remdesevir, tested against Ebola: "It didn't do as well as some of the other drugs. But it's there." Remdesivir was the one that they chose to be the only drug the hospitals were allowed to use to treat Covid patients. The problem was that in the trial against Ebola, they tested 4 different drugs, but quit using remdesivir partway through the trial because more than half of the patients given it died.
The next question he is asked is about other already-approved drugs that might be useful for Covid. Fauci brings up remdesevir, tested against Ebola: "It didn't do as well as some of the other drugs. But it's there." Remdesivir was the one that they chose to be the only drug the hospitals were allowed to use to treat Covid patients. The problem was that in the trial against Ebola, they tested 4 different drugs, but quit using remdesivir partway through the trial because more than half of the patients given it died.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993