Posted on 08/08/2014 10:01:35 AM PDT by FR_addict
President Obama held a news conference on Wednesday evening to tout the success three day U.S. African Leaders Summit, but what reporters really wanted to know about was Ebola.
Obama said it was premature for him to say whether the U.S. would send an unapproved, experimental drug to Africa or whether he would support fast-tracking its approval in the U.S.
"I think we've got to let the science guide us," the president said, adding that he didn't have enough data about the effectiveness of the medicine. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at thewire.com ...
“Obama said it was premature for him to say whether the U.S. would send an unapproved, experimental drug to Africa ....”
The instant that this drug is sent to Africa, the U.S.A. will own every Ebola death. If the drug actually works (by no means a certainty), the U.S.A. will receive little or no credit for it. If the drug doesn’t work, and the crisis gets worse — the U.S.A. will be blamed for that. (Just as, for instance, millions continue to believe that the U.S. government created HIV/AIDS.)
BO considers himself half arab he doesn’t care if africans die....
Arabas are deeply racist against the Africans...
Yup.
Ping.
Obama forgets that the serum was developed by a FOR PROFIT company who spent likely millions to develop the serum and thus would not be giving it away for free. The company can also expect to run a gauntlet of federal regulators that will add years to the time before it could be made available to treat humans. Once released to the market the company can also expect years of law suits about any “damage” that the serum may have done to those taking it.
The magical ‘serum’ is by no means the only treatment available for ebola that’s experimental.
There’s another drug, already approved for use in humans, in Japan that’s been shown to be effective in a laboratory study. Having been approved for use in humans already, the worst that could happen is that it simply doesn’t work in Ebola. This particular drug is in phase III clinical trials here for use as an anti-flu drug.
Now if that had been George Bush ...
He’ll fast track the serum when Ebola gets out of control all over the world.
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When the Muzzies start dying........
The stats right now are 55-90% die?? How can that be??
The two who have gotten the "drug" have also been given other care. The doc got a transfusion from a 14 year old who had survived (a stab at a vaccine).
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Which much of Africa doesn't have, so President Obola is 'so sorry' but really ok with letting the people die .... obviously the "blood of Africa" doesn't run deep enough in his veins for him to be bothered by helping them out in a meaningful way. Besides, it's vacay time - heaven forbid he misses a tee time or hot tub rendezvous.
I’m betting he and every connected person who met with the AFrican delegations has a bottle of this Japanese compound sitting in their medicine cabinets at home.
What better way to test it than on dying Africans?
At this early stage of the Ebola breakout, you guys want to get rid of our Ebola drug and send it to Africa?
Right now, there are not that many infected. I imagine we could produce enough to give it to everyone that has it.
I believe you’d win that bet.
By Adam Withnall, The Independent
06 August 14
Authorities in West Africa have expressed outrage that treatment was given to two US aid workers in Liberia – where disease has killed 255 people
hree of Britain’s leading Ebola specialists have said experimental treatments for the deadly Ebola virus must be offered to the people of West Africa, after two US aid workers were administered with the “cure” in Liberia.
The two missionaries, Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, are alive and now being cared for at a specialist isolation unit in Atlanta.
Though the pair remain weak – and there is no way of knowing at this stage how much of a help the new drug has actually been – the fact that it was given to the two Americans has resulted in widespread criticism and recriminations in West Africa.
Now Peter Piot, who discovered Ebola in 1976, David Heymann, the director of the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security and Jeremy Farrar from the Wellcome Trust have said there are in fact several drugs and vaccines under study that could be used to combat the disease.
“African governments should be allowed to make informed decisions about whether or not to use these products - for example to protect and treat healthcare workers who run especially high risks of infection,” they wrote in a joint statement.
The World Health Organization (WHO), “the only body with the necessary international authority” to allow such experimental treatments, “must take on this greater leadership role”, they said...
Your imagination might be enough.
I need a little more before while I’m ready to get rid of the doses we have.
Personally, I don’t think this is the week to decide to rid ourselves of our only possible cure.
We’ve already got an experimental drug, that’s for sale already in Japan, in phase III clinical trials here.
It’s a pill.
That’s already being manufactured.
Not some serum of questionable effectiveness that’s never before been tested on humans.
The pill drug in Japan has already been stockpiled there in case of a flu outbreak.
Stockpile means it’s already been produced in mass quantities.
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