Veru value up 200% on sabizabulin data in COVID-19

11 April 2022

Miami, USA-based Veru Healthcare (Nasdaq: VERU) has announced positive efficacy and safety results from a planned interim analysis of the Phase III COVID-19 trial evaluating oral sabizabulin 9mg versus placebo in 150 hospitalized COVID-19 patients at high risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

The Independent Data Safety Monitoring Committee unanimously recommended that the study be halted early due to efficacy, and it further remarked that no safety concerns were identified.

"We strongly believe that sabizabulin can be that greatly needed oral therapy for hospitalized moderate to severe COVID-19 patients"This news has sent shares in Veru skywards, and they were almost 200% higher at $13 the mid-point of Monday’s trading.

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