[Pearls Before Swine]

“Doesn’t halt replication, but induces errors in replication...”

— Dr. Eldon Tyrell, to Roy Baty, in “Blade Runner”

[ifinnegan]

Chloroquine does the same thing, that’s been known more than ten years.

This drug is being developed now?

Why didn’t Fauci focus on developing a drug like this, or determining efficacy of chloroquine over the past 15 years?

36 years and he has done nothing.

[oh8eleven]

“We’ve done three to four years of development work in just the past three to four weeks in response to the new pandemic,”
Oh, oh, don't let Dr Fauci hear that!

[Sacajaweau]

And the cost will be what.....$1,000.00 per pill?

[null and void]

"the drug would be the first pill available to help with the COVID-19 pandemic"

uh huh...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[exinnj]

This drug supposedly causes mutations in viral RNA. What about our own cellular RNA? What can possibly go wrong?

[Mom MD]

there are multiple promising clinical trials with several different drugs and also convalescent plasma