Posted on 04/16/2020 10:36:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral medicine remdesivir in a closely watched clinical trial is seeing rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms, with nearly all patients discharged in less than a week, STAT has learned.
Remdesivir was one of the first medicines identified as having the potential to impact SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, in lab tests. The entire world has been waiting for results from Gilead’s clinical trials, and positive results would likely lead to fast approvals by the Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies. If safe and effective, it could become the first approved treatment against the disease.
The University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 people with Covid-19 into Gilead’s two Phase 3 clinical trials. Of those people, 113 had severe disease. All the patients have been treated with daily infusions of remdesivir.
history of genetics in a new Ken Burns film “The best news is that most of our patients have already been discharged, which is great. We’ve only had two patients perish,” said Kathleen Mullane, the University of Chicago infectious disease specialist overseeing the remdesivir studies for the hospital.
Her comments were made this week during a video discussion about the trial results with other University of Chicago faculty members. The discussion was recorded and STAT obtained a copy of the video.
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I hope this can start to put an end to this leftist dream.
“treated with daily infusions of remdesivir. “
Gonna be expensive. This sounds like IV.
” Last month, President Trump touted the potential for remdesivir...”
Another Trump Drug.
where’s the actual study. anyone got a link?
Essentially bogus. It’s someone moving the markets because options expire at the end of Friday. Results were similarly released last week from trials underway for the exact same drug. They looked nothing at all like what’s being reported right now.
Here is the link to the previous study. Not been able to find a link to the new “fantastic” results. However, check the comment on Zerohedge (see post #8 in this thread).
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016
In the meantime the epidemic is running its course in Marseille, France. Check this page, both the fact that the patients receiving HCQ/AZ has a low observed mortality,and the fact that the epidemic is starting to abate.
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/
On the other hand people could be treated with a drug that has been round for years and is a generic.
It is a difficult compound to fabricate. It will be very difficult to formulate into a tablet or capsule form. I suggest these BigPharma whiners go out and make their own anti-viral drug. Whats standing in your way?
It's Twitter. You have to factor that in.
$1000 per DOSE.
It is a difficult compound to fabricate.
True - but the CovidChinese have already stolen it.
I suggest these BigPharma whiners go out and make their own anti-viral drug. Whats standing in your way?
The CovidChinese already did the heavy lifting. 
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