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.
[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 difference with remdesivir is possibly that it can un-seize the engine. We’ll see. The company cautioned that the results are still anecdotal, and full details aren’t out, yet.
[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. ]
They ended trials, which suggests to me that it worked, and they’re pirating the drug on the sly and using it on Chinese patients. My guess is that because of its novelty, manufacturing cost per dose will be hefty vs something like quinine where processes have been refined over many decades. Whatever the cost though, it’s cheaper than shutting the economy down.