{"id":1995,"date":"2021-08-03T07:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:34:14","slug":"nrx-pharmas-zyesami-approved-for-emergency-use-covid-critical-care-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/nrx-pharmas-zyesami-approved-for-emergency-use-covid-critical-care-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"NRx Pharma&#8217;s ZYESAMI\u2122 approved for emergency use Covid critical care in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of July 27, a global <a href=\"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/\">biopharmaceutical company<\/a>, NRx Pharmaceuticals, has announced that the Prime Minister of the Nation of Georgia, together with the Health Minister, have issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for injecting ZYESAMI (aviptadil) as a treatment for critical COVID-19 condition.<br>&#8220;Lead investigators from our ZYESAMI clinical trials are on their way to the Nation of\u00a0Georgia\u00a0and will be on the ground there within 24 hours to start teaching physicians how to administer ZYESAMI\u2122 to some of the sickest of COVID patients,&#8221; said Prof.\u00a0Jonathan Javitt, MD, MPH, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of NRx. &#8220;The repeating ferociousness of this pandemic is of great concern, and we hope ZYESAMI\u2122 can have a real-world impact, comparable to what we saw in our clinical trials.&#8221;<br>A significant increase in the COVID-19 cases on daily basis \u0336 hospitalization of patients, especially in the hospital ICUs \u0336 as seen by the doctors of Georgia, has led to the approval of the drug by the regulatory authority.<br>Dr. Ivane Chkhaidze, a leading pulmonary physician in\u00a0Georgia\u00a0and a member of the Association of Georgia Physicians Leadership Team, said, &#8220;This latest wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/\">COVID-19<\/a>, brought on by the delta variant has medical professionals in\u00a0Georgia\u00a0working throughout each day and night trying to keep people breathing.&#8221; He further added, &#8220;We appreciate the Prime Minister and Minister of Health authorizing the use of ZYESAMI and offering Georgian physicians a new treatment to help people recover from this devastating virus.&#8221;<br>A team of physicians traveling to\u00a0Georgia to train fellow doctors about the effects and administration of the drug, is headed by Dr.\u00a0Javier Perez-Fernandez, a lead investigator in the Phase\u00a02b\/3 clinical trial of intravenous ZYESAMI, and critical care <a href=\"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/\">pulmonologist in\u00a0Miami<\/a>, Florida. 20 of the leading critical care physicians in the country are in the team of Georgian physicians who got trained first.<br>Initial doses of ZYESAMI\u2122 will arrive within 24 hours in the Nation of Georgia. The discussions regarding the provision of the drug for the critical COVID-19 Georgian patients, are still undergoing with the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of July 27, a global biopharmaceutical company, NRx Pharmaceuticals, has announced that the Prime Minister of the Nation of Georgia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,472,462,471],"class_list":{"0":"post-1995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-clinical","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-georgia","10":"tag-nrx-pharmaceuticals","11":"tag-zyesami"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifescivoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}