Posted on 04/01/2020 1:50:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
When asked about what role drugs will play in bringing this health emergency under control, Carson said progress is happening at a rapid pace, including more than 100 clinical trials for medication to treat the virus now under way.
“People are really jumping into this with both feet,” Carson said.
Carson said last week a plasma treatment that uses antibodies from people who have recovered from the virus to be infused into people who are ill was approved.
“It gives [patients] a jumpstart on fighting this,” Carson said.
Carson said there is also some promise surfacing in New York City — the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. — using the combination of the drugs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat coronavirus patients.
These are the drugs that President Donald Trump has highlighted as promising during his daily press briefings.
Carson said this combination of drugs also showed promise both in China where the virus first emerged and in a French study.
Carson also said in a departure from past practices, while drugs are going through clinical trials patients are being allowed to have access to them.
“I think that’s the wise thing to do because the risk of doing nothing are so high in this particular case,” Carson said.
Carson said drug approval and testing protocol changes could show results in weeks not months.
“We’ll know that very shortly, in the next week or two,” Carson said.
Progress on a vaccine is also taking place as the scientific community steps up its efforts on this front.
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Shouldn’t the CDC/NIH/FDA be looking at developing some more efficacious treatments?
Otherwise what good are they? [Beyond protecting us from gunz and Global Warning]
Good! I really hope Dr. Carson is right.
At last!
Someone who actually knows what he is talking about.
NY has been using these drugs for 5 or six days. We should have some kind of indication by now one way or the other. They could at least tell us if all the people dying there have had the drug or not.
This is the kind of talk I like to hear! Those briefings are not helpful to the degree of instilling hope after they smack us between the ears with a whole lot of numbers!
“Therefore, there still may be cause for concern about this type of virus. “There are likely hundreds of coronaviruses out there in bats,” Leibowitz said. “We’ve only really seen two of them manifest as severe diseases in humans, and they all may have some potential for transmission to other species — including us.”
“I have no real doubt that there will be another outbreak of a coronavirus,” Leibowitz added. “We don’t know where or when or which one, but we need to be ready.””
Kinda surprised he’s not on the response team. Guess his duties as HUD secretary don’t put him in the loop. But I hope the Administration (President Trump) is sounding him out on contingencies.
He’s one of the smartest people in the medical field so that gives me hope.
This Doctor should be trusted, he is the real deal.
I wish he was Surgeon General, the man in that job doesn’t
make me as confident of what he says as Doc Carson.
God bless Doc Carson, when he talks many of us pay attention because he is a genius who has saved so many lives and has pioneered many brain surgery techniques.
Just wait. Up will jump Dr Jill Biden to correct him. She is more qualified than Ben Carson you know.
What a bunch of lying...
They are doing just that — for instance, several vaccines are being developed and tested simultaneously, along with scores of anti-virals, and other therapies. I’m nearly panicking about this (double-whammy high-risk group); but, I’m very reassured about the way most health organizations are handling it (not just in the USA). You do make an excellent point about guns and global warming — clearly, mission creep was running rampant in these organizations, while they weren’t busy enough with their core mandates.
Using malaria medicines and the like means that the (absolutely essential!) clinical trials can proceed on a parallel track alongside people being prescribed the drugs. That would not be possible with new, untested drugs — the risks would simply be too great.
Typically, the FDA takes an average of 12 years to approve a drug. These drugs are being tested in weeks, not years — and that’s only doable because they’ve already been proven safe (albeit, for other uses). These trials are mainly for efficacy, not safety.
https://www.drugs.com/fda-approval-process.html
I need hope. This new world just flippin stinks!
PDJT, sit Dr Faux and Dr Scarf down and let Dr Carson talk to us!!!
Thanks for the Link.
I still don’t see actual work on new therapies for today’s CV going on in the Federal Bureaucracy. The seem to want to be the monopoly controllers, but don’t seem to be developing anything internally.
There are a number of bio-companies around with world that have developed AI to look into all sorts of situations based on biochemical information learned to date to see if they can find something to work on a given problem in very short order.
I don’t see that the CDC/NIH/FDA have similar in house processes available to them.
Carson needs more screen time at these events.
There have been bats around since the beginning so why do they infect humans now? Where did bats get it from?
He’s one of the smartest people in the medical field so that gives me hope.
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Exactly. He should be out more.
Carson needs more screen time at these events.
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YES!!
Now, ask the question, "what good are they?"
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