Where have you been?
At the Guardian, the only bible they know was written by Marx.
Otherwise it would be “African patients to be guinea pigs!”
They are very busy, but they have promised to rescue Africa by next Thursday at the latest.
Ping...
As compared to the virus, which is neither safe nor effective?
What's the harm in offering people the opportunity to use an experimental drug that someone has not decided is *safe* when their alternative is dying a horrible death from Ebola?
Perspective here, folks.....
It has to be deemed *safe* by our overlords to be used by people who are going to die anyway? Not giving them the drug is not safe either.
Like what's going to happen if they take a drug that's not safe? They might die from it?
Really?
Whoever wrote the title used the emotionally laden “denied” which is probably a lie. Experimental drugs made in a lab may take hundreds of steps and cost hundreds of thousands for a few doses. The ingredients may be so expensive that its a huge investment to make ten doses. Saying you can’t make and then give away thousands of doses free is not denying the drugs. It’s just not possible to do.
Supposing the drugs worked and there was no lengthy approval required before the FDA would allow them to be made it would still take a year or more to ramp up a large scale operation to produce sufficient quantities.
...the World has never cared about what goes on in Africa....
Let’s face it. If experimental drugs were to be used in Africa, “somebodies” would be screaming racism for experimenting on blacks.
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.
So far the false positive rate is 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...
That’s because whitey makes the rules, jack!
I think this means that we don’t want to be accused of murdering Africans when/if the vaccines don’t work.
I suspect the preparation used to treat the two Americans cannot be produced quickly enough or in enough quantity to make it a practical tool for the epidemic.
It sounds like a “proof of concept” project which could be useful to guide future research.