Additional patients are in the process of being enrolled. The Company also reported it will host an investor conference call on
The Ampligen EAP protocol is authorized at any one time to enroll up to 100 active Chronic Fatigue Syndrome trial participants, 20 of whom may be Long Haulers. All study subjects will receive the same Ampligen treatments. The EAP is being conducted by investigators
'AIM is committed to helping the untold number of people who are already dealing with the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection,' said AIM CEO
'Hunter-Hopkins Center is excited to have started Ampligen therapy for the first time on a Long Hauler with CFS-like symptoms,' said
AIM announced late last year that the Ampligen-involved myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) EAP would be expanded to include patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 - which causes the disease COVID-19 - and whose persistence of symptoms has led to the group being dubbed 'Long Haulers.' Studies show that patients who recover from COVID-19 can report the persistence of symptoms. In addition, many survivors of the first SARS-CoV-1 epidemic in 2003 continued to report classic chronic fatigue-like symptoms after recovering from the acute illness. In fact, approximately 27% of survivors in a JAMA Internal Medicine study met the
'Ampligen is approved in
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