To: kiryandil
[I went to her Twitter feed, and she’s pumping Gilead’s Remdesivir like it’s the Second Coming of Christ.]
Futures up a few % because of news that a Gilead clinical trial panned out. At this stage, if the drug works well, I’d have no problem giving $20b tax-free to Gilead to hand over the rights to this drug to all companies that want to make a generic version. It’s a pittance compared to the $trillions of damage sustained through month-long shutdowns.
The key difference between the Gilead drug and the quinine derivatives is that the Gilead drug cured 2/3 of the patients at an advanced stage of the disease. Someone I know who got the malaria drug and z-pak while on the ventilator died anyway.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2020/04/16/uc-davis-clinical-trial-shows-promising-early.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo
[Nearly two-thirds of severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are responding well to a new drug, according to the early findings of a clinical trial that UC Davis Health participated in.
The university recently co-published its preliminary findings on the use of remdesivir, an antiviral drug, with early results indicating that the drug may be beneficial to patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms. The findings were published April 10 in The New England Journal of Medicine.]
82 posted on
04/16/2020 6:53:56 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
Someone I know who got the malaria drug and z-pak while on the ventilator died anyway. Right.
The quacks are waiting till a piston or two seize in the cylinders to add a quart of oil to the engine, and then wonder why the engine dies.
The Chi-Coms have already duplicated Remdesivir, and actually tried to apply for the patents in February or March, but got shut down.
They still stole it.
86 posted on
04/16/2020 6:58:16 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
To: Zhang Fei
Clinical trials take longer than this.
Months, if I'm not mistaken.
87 posted on
04/16/2020 6:59:22 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
To: Zhang Fei
BTW - I'm NOT trash-talking Remdesivir - good on it if it helps.
But I like preventative maintenance before a total repair job [badly damaged lungs and organs].
20 bucks for a course of treatment versus $1000 a dose.
88 posted on
04/16/2020 7:01:56 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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