and evidence of lower respiratory tract infection

[GoodTaste]

Here, "evidence" is one of the object. The question is what is its subject and the verb? "Remdesivir was (evidence)"? It sounds odd to me.

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Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report

CONCLUSIONS
Remdesivir was superior to placebo in shortening the time to recovery in adults hospitalized with Covid-19 and evidence of lower respiratory tract infection. (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and others; ACCT-1 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04280705.)

Source: New England Journal of Medicine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32649074/

 

[jutfrank]

... in adults [...] with [...] evidence of respiratory tract infection

Does that make it clear?

 

[Tarheel]

Here, "evidence" is one of the objects. The question is what is the subject and what is the verb? "Remdesivir was (evidence)"? It sounds odd to me.

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Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report

CONCLUSIONS
Remdesivir was superior to placebo in shortening the time to recovery in adults hospitalized with Covid-19 and evidence of lower respiratory tract infection. (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and others; ACCT-1 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04280705.)

Source: New England Journal of Medicine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32649074/

Can you identify the rather long noun phrase that is the object of that sentence?