RE: Howard Seth Gold at BIDMC is a Big Pharma quack, and is touting the liver-killing snake oil Remdesivir for its “sovereign cure”
I didn’t know that Remdesivir is a liver-killing drug. Are there any side effects mentioned by Gilead?
...The report published in the New England Journal of Medicine tracked 53 people in the U.S., Europe and Canada who needed respiratory support, with about half receiving mechanical ventilation and four on a heart-lung bypass machine. Eight additional patients were left out of the analysis: one due to a dosing error and seven because no information was available on how they fared.
All received remdesivir for up to 10 days on a compassionate use basis, a program that allows people to use unapproved medicines when no other treatment options are available. Over 18 days, 68 percent of the patients improved, with 17 of the 30 patients on mechanical ventilation being able to get off the breathing device. Almost half of the patients studied were ultimately discharged, while 13 percent died. Mortality was highest among those who were on a ventilator, with 18 percent of them dying....
ANNNNDDDDDD, buried at the bottom of this article:
About one in four patients on the medicine experienced severe side effects, including multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome, septic shock, acute kidney injury and low blood pressure. Another 23 percent showed signs of liver damage on laboratory tests. Four patients had to stop receiving infusions of the drug entirely.
The greatest risk posed to the coronavirus patients treated with remdesivir was liver damage.
Lab work showed enzyme build up in 7.3 percent of the patients. the risk of liver damage became great enough that three percent were removed from the trial.