Credit: REUTERS/ARND WIEGMANNZURICH, July 29 (Reuters) - A late-stage clinical trial of Roche's ROG.S Actemra/RoActemra drug to treat patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19-related pneumonia failed, the drugmaker said on Wednesday.
The "COVACTA trial did not meet its primary endpoint of improved clinical status in patients with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, or the key secondary endpoint of reduced patient mortality," Roche said.
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