US begins human testing for coronavirus drug

Fox 5 ^ | Feb. 26, 2020 | Madeline Holcombe, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Steve Almasy

[gattaca]

OMAHA, Neb. — Hope for treating the novel coronavirus could be on the horizon, as the first U.S. study of a drug to treat the illness is underway.

So far, there is no cure or vaccine for the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed over 2,700 worldwide in the past few months.

News of the drug testing came Tuesday, just as a federal health official warned that the virus will eventually start spreading in U.S. communities.

A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir in adults diagnosed with coronavirus started at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health said.

The first participant is an American who was evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan.

Also on Tuesday, top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned about the potential spreading of the novel coronavirus in the U.S.

[metmom]

And yet they are assuring us of the number of cases here and saying there’s no problem.

How can they know without testing?

[goldstategop]

A vaccine is still months if not years away.

[DouglasKC]

Question for everyone: If a vaccine is developed will you take it?

[CincyRichieRich]

I think we would have to be stupid if we didn’t ask the question with both Iran and China having the virus now and then spreading in South Korea why is our CIA getting a free pass? I am not giving them a free pass as they all want Obama’s vision of the world and when one does simple things like follow the money and ask who benefits? And when you weigh that with how the Chinese have no problem killing off their citizens for the benefit of the states and everybody serve the state not the other way around, you have to believe that this is absolutely a vial weapon that has been released for 50 of not just President Trump but the United States what it is doing to China and the defeat of the one world order. Those who on Free Republic who look at this as a conspiracy weirdo thing against President Trump are looking at it the wrong way. Take President Trump out of the equation. The u.s. is kicking their butt up and down the street and they can’t survive unless they do something. They want communism and one world order so does Iran and so does our CIA and other deep Staters. President Trump is just the person who is standing up being a leader over the whole thing right now. So he must be stopped. When you look at it that way there really is no other conclusion. There are no coincidences.

[CincyRichieRich]

Another anecdotal way to to me through this is on purpose is how you don’t hear from George Soros or from the Gates Foundation or from the Ford Foundation or any of the other liberal foundations like the Clinton Foundation that they are putting copious dollars towards developing a vaccine to save the world. They could have solutely do that but they are not going to do that because they want this to happen.

[HangnJudge]

...Question for everyone: If a vaccine is developed will you take it?

RNA viruses are notoriously difficult to develop vaccines for

[txrefugee]

17,000+ Americans have died of the plain flu so far this year, and we have March to go in this flu season. Where was the panic?

The coronavirus will turn out to be as over-hyped as the Comet Kohoutek. If you don’t remember it, look it up.

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Already being used elsewhere...

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.

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...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

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[TheBattman]

infected more than 80,000 people

In Wuhan - the city the virus is believed to have begun its spread in... There is some plausible evidence that there have been at least that many DEATHS in China so far (and maybe more... lots more).

[China Clipper]

Does anybody else feel like we are living in a Hollywood movie?
With this "vaccine" for the coronavirus, all we need now is a good forensic medical doctor and a scary "zombie-like" creature, and we could have a real remake of "I am Legend"
This is a scary reminder

[Truthoverpower]

You first !

[gattaca]

I’ll pass.

[sauropod]

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