Posted on 04/02/2020 8:54:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - Sanofi SA will be able to provide millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine for patients with the illness caused by the novel coronavirus if the old malaria drug proves successful in clinical trials, its chief executive told Reuters on Thursday.
Paul Hudson, who became CEO of the French drugmaker in September, said in an interview that the company is currently manufacturing at over 93% capacity during the pandemic.
He said the company had made a choice to "overproduce" its drugs to ensure supplies for hospitals in Europe and the United States facing an unprecedented crush of patients suffering from respiratory complications that is threatening to overwhelm healthcare systems.
Hospital executives and doctors from nine European countries, in an open letter on Wednesday, said they only had up to two weeks worth of some medicines used in intensive care units and urged greater European collaboration.
European Union countries will have access to the medicines they need, the bloc's industry chief Thierry Breton said on Thursday in an attempt to reassure the public.
Hudson said Sanofi was not at full manufacturing capacity because workers with coronavirus symptoms such as fever, and any employee who had been in close contact with them, are sent home for two weeks.
"We are overly cautious. One person getting a temperature means we lose maybe a half dozen people," he said.
Sanofi operates 73 industrial locations in 32 countries.
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“if the old malaria drug proves successful in clinical trials”
Just how successful does it need to be?
The FDA needs to be remade after all this is over.
I would much rather hear daily reports on how many doses of this drug are available than the other BS...this is what matters...HOW MANY PILLS ARE READY TODAY?
Yeah, made unrecognizable compared to what it is now.
The FDA needs to be remade after all this is over.
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Add them to the list along with the CDC and FBI.
The mainstream media are not just biased, they are also incompetent, ignorant, stupid, and lazy. A Trump typo in a tweet is big news to them, but no one they know wants to hear anything about Orange Drug Bad.
Worthless in a crisis is a special kind of worthless.
Plus the batfe (Bad Attitude Towards Freedom & Equality).
Well CEO Lips- FLIP THE DAMNED SWITCH AND PRODUCE THE PILLS !!!
Or do Y’all have to be French and surrender first ?
Failure is NOT an option, and must never be rewarded!
The deep state is an 18th century bureaucracy running in the 21st century. Fire them all!
Just how successful does it need to be?
Indeed. We know this protocol works. It is being prescribed all across the nation. Medical folks are taking HydroxyC as a preventative. It simply hasn't been given the official government stamp of approval. How many will die while waiting for the moribund bureaucratic process to grind to a completion?
And the DoJ. And State Department.
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