Posted on 02/20/2020 12:32:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Preliminary results from two clinical trials of therapeutics for the new coronavirus that’s spreading around the world are expected in several weeks, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Feb. 20.
The organization’s R&D Blueprint, a plan that allows the rapid activation of research and development activities during epidemics, has enabled the fast-tracking of two trials, WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva at the organization’s headquarters on Feb. 20.
“We expect preliminary results in three weeks,” Tedros said.
1) One of the trials is using lopinavir and ritonavir, two drugs typically used to treat HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus infection. The medications are part of a class called protease inhibitors, working by decreasing the amount of HIV in the blood, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Doctors in Thailand said earlier this month that initial results showed patients responding to a treatment that combined lopinavir and ritonavir and a flu drug called oseltamivir
2. The other trial is testing an antiviral drug called remdisivir that was developed by Gilead Sciences. The drug isn’t licensed or approved anywhere for use, the company said in a statement last month, adding that it was working with Chinese authorities to conduct a randomized, controlled trial to look at whether the drug could treat the new virus.
According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, remdesivir successfully prevented disease in rhesus macaques infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome, another coronavirus.
The new virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19 that has killed thousands and infected more than 75,000 people worldwide, has no known vaccine or treatment, officials said.
“At this moment in time, there is no proven, effective treatment for COVID-19,” Janet Diaz, a WHO official, told reporters in Geneva.
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* According to a database run by Informa Pharma Intelligence, 124 clinical trials had either been started as of Feb. 19 or were slated to begin in the coming weeks. All but three are in China.
* 40,000-plus patients are being targeted
* Nearly half of the 124 trials will test antiviral medications, and another 47 will look at whether natural products, or Chinese medicine that isn’t classified as pharmacological products, can treat the new virus
“It Just Doesn’t Matter”
Bill Murry in Meatballs
If they determine a combination of anti-virals that beat the Demon - we will quickly run out and will not be able to get the base ingredients from China to make more.
“f they determine a combination of anti-virals that beat the Demon - we will quickly run out and will not be able to get the base ingredients from China to make more.”
Abbot spin-off Abvie that makes 1 of 2 of these manufactures its drugs in the USA (about 90%), Germany, and Ireland.
Don’t know about #2.
ritonavir is also an Abbot drug.
So, whew!
In almost everything else, you’d be right.
I hope all of you Free Traitors™ are proud of yourselves.
What does this news have to do with your Free Traitors (false accusation) term?
Well you big dummy, thanks to Free Traitors™ almost all of our medicine and medical supplies are imported from overseas, mostly from China. GET IT?
The lesson then is to DIVERSIFY your supply chain. That does not mean that you totally stop trading with everyone in the world.
How is that being a traitor to your country ( your word not mine )?
Please take not of the drop in reports of new cases. It is Mainland China
related, and is making these questionable numbers from the start, look
even worse.
In the last day or so the leadership of China stated they have done a
a lot of work to end COVID-19, and local Wuhan leaders would be held
responsible for reports of new cases.
DATE TIME DAY CASES 02/17/20 23:43 MON 31 02/18/20 09:23 TUE 31 02/18/20 15:23 TUE 31 02/18/20 18:13 TUE 31 02/18/20 20:33 TUE 31 02/18/20 23:03 TUE 31 02/19/20 08:43 WED 31 02/19/20 15:53 WED 31 02/19/20 20:03 WED 82 02/19/20 23:33 WED 82 02/19/20 23:53 WED 82 02/20/20 09:33 THU 104 02/20/20 16:13 THU 104 02/20/20 18:33 THU 156
Sure it does when you are running $850B / year trade deficits. /sarcasm
>>How is that being a traitor to your country ( your word not mine )?
When you buy a foreign made product you are hiring foreigners ( some of the Communist slaves ) to work for you over Americans. This make you a traitor in light of every thing that has happened to the USA over the last 30 years. The social/economic devastation caused by globalists, those rapacious greedy losers, has brought us to the point where EVERYONE expects a collapse. A collapse that was and is still is completely avoidable.
Industry is the heart of the economy and it always will be. To be a Patriot you have to be a Nationalist and Nationalists love tariffs just like our founding fathers did. Protective tariffs are the best way to restore America's industry.
A Patriot looks out for the best interest of his countrymen even if they are are on the lower end of the capability spectrum, even if they are political opposites they are still your countrymen. Offshoring the jobs of our most economically vulnerable has led to social chaos and the destruction of thousands of small towns all over the USA. Do you think this created more Republicans? Agriculture alone is too small of an economic driver to keep these towns alive, industry is what kept them going. We are pushing young people into large urban socialist hell holes and losing the heartland to globalism.
RE: Sure it does when you are running $850B / year trade deficits. /sarcasm
so? They get paper money, we get the goods.
And where do these countries put their money when push comes to shove? In US Treasuries. So, the money flows back to us anyway.
RE: When you buy a foreign made product you are hiring foreigners ( some of the Communist slaves ) to work for you over Americans.
A) And Americans can do many other kinds of work, it’s not as if we do not make toys, clothes or shoes, our workers are therefore idled.
B) When the workers in these third world countries have jobs, are employed, and have the money to spend, what do they use these money for? FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS. Many of these are BOUGHT from the United States.
The trade deals we have with many of these countries give huge advantages to our agricultural workers who export wheat, soy, corn, etc. to them. What happens to these exports when the workers in these countries do not have the money to buy them?
RE: Industry is the heart of the economy and it always will be. To be a Patriot you have to be a Nationalist and Nationalists love tariffs just like our founding fathers did. Protective tariffs are the best way to restore America’s industry.
Being a Nationalist DOES NOT MEAN that you demand every single business to make their products here. Are you going to pass a law saying — “if you are an American company, it will be illegal to manufacture anything overseas” (like we are doing making illegal any exports to North Korea and Iran ).
How are you going to implement this? All you will ensure is would be entrepreneurs register their businesses overseas.
NATIONALISM for me means this — You create the business conditions that make it attractive to manufacture and make things here in the United States. Light regulation, reasonable environmental rules, low taxes, competitive laws.
You do that and businesses will naturally want to flock to the United States.
But COERCING American companies and would be entrepreneurs to MAKE things here even when they don’t find it cost effective is NOT Nationalism. It is in fact opposite of Freedom and Liberty.
RE: A Patriot looks out for the best interest of his countrymen even if they are are on the lower end of the capability spectrum, even if they are political opposites they are still your countrymen.
And that is my issue with you -— We both have the same ENDS -— the interest of our countrymen.
But the best MEANS to achieve this interest is where we differ. Correct me if I am wrong, but based on our exchanges in the past, You insist that EVERYTHING ( shoes, socks, shirts, clothes, all widgets, etc. ) must be made in the USA without exception and you insist that this is Patriotic. I counter that this is NOT NECESSARILY SO. That cost effectiveness, that is, making things better and cheaper ANYWHERE is BETTER for our fellow Americans.
I am not against tariffs by the way, but it has to be FAIR. They tax our good X%, we do the same. I am all for that. What I disagree with is this -— that we should make everything here in the USA ( in fact, pass a law to REQUIRE everything to be made here ).
Also, calling people who disagree with your MEANS of achieving the same END, traitors, is UNFAIR.
>>I counter that this is NOT NECESSARILY SO.
Oh BS. It is better to pay a little more at retail and have job, a viable community and life then to not have job and failing community. When I was laid off and had to train my replacement on a H-1B visa from Pakistan I learned all about gloBULLism then. I hate it. Visceral hatred. I'll never get over it. Even after 25 years the bitterness never leaves you. EVER.
There all decimated post industrial small towns all over VA and NC. it isn't theoretical, it is real.
If it were up to me you globalist would all be .....
RE: If it were up to me you globalist would all be .....
Thankfully, it isn’t up to you and it won’t ever be.
All of this could have been avoided and capitalism saved. But Globalism + capitalism = communism. Thanks for nothing..
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