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Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial
ft.com ^ | 04.23.2020 | FT

Posted on 04/23/2020 9:58:54 AM PDT by rxsid

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To: rxsid

Ignore. This is not valid.


21 posted on 04/23/2020 10:08:42 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: John Leland 1789

My feelings also. Between screwing America/Trump as long as possible and wanting vote by mail...I am unsure of any coronavirus news these days.


22 posted on 04/23/2020 10:09:06 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RummyChick

I wonder what the side effects are? I read this is an adenosine analog that is “viral specific” and the mechanism of action is to abruptly terminate the replicating chains of RNA but it seems like, if it were actually “virus specific” there should be no side effects.


23 posted on 04/23/2020 10:09:28 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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To: rxsid

Yuh got 18 months more to fulfill Craven Gruesom’s prophecy...


24 posted on 04/23/2020 10:12:05 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: CatOwner

Did they run this info by the jerk claiming he was removed because he would not push the use of cloquinine.


25 posted on 04/23/2020 10:12:18 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: rxsid

Adam Fuerstein is a hack and had played the market on many pharma companies. he is not to be believed. Google him.


26 posted on 04/23/2020 10:12:43 AM PDT by ncfool (Impeachment: The Democrat campaign to re-elect Trump - Keep America Great 2020)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The antiparasite drug Ivermectin also shows promise and is being used on a trial basis in Broward County, Florida. The results are due to be reported soon.


27 posted on 04/23/2020 10:12:56 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: John Leland 1789

It’s not that they don’t want it.

We have very few vaccines for viruses and it is more probable we will not discover some Jonas Salk cure than is likely we will.


28 posted on 04/23/2020 10:13:30 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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29 posted on 04/23/2020 10:14:49 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

However, premature cremation was 100% effective in flattening the curve


30 posted on 04/23/2020 10:15:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (President Trump: Do not trust China. China is asshoe!)
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To: rxsid
Remdesivir is a scary drug.

It messes with the bases of the RNA strand, substituting a different base into the strand periodically to change the virus into something else, to where it can't replicate effectively.

Zinc, with Hydroxychloroquine (notice how I put the most import thing first, instead of what acts as the gateway into the cell to allow zinc) - actually stops the virus replicase.

Any "Hydroxychloroquine studies" that do not include zinc are useless. It's like seeing how far you can drive in a gas-powered car without gas - and complaining that it just sits there.

31 posted on 04/23/2020 10:15:27 AM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: rxsid

More Bolshevik Bullshit.

Put a real docter in charge of the study, using treatments in due course on a variety of patients with continuous monitoring. After THAT design a study that will give the Demprezifear optimum parameters to cure the disease.

These studies are applying the drug as if its a vaccine. No wonder it flops.

I suspect the drug is not being given early enough in the evolution of the disease. They test the patient until they are almost dead and then roll out the supposed miracle drug.


32 posted on 04/23/2020 10:15:33 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: rxsid
Gilead's response:

"Importantly, because this study was terminated early due to low enrolment, it was underpowered to enable statistically meaningful conclusions," it said. "As such, the study results are inconclusive, though trends in the data suggest a potential benefit for remdesivir, particularly among patients treated early in disease."

https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/gildead-drug-remdesivir-flops-in-first-trial-report-20200423
33 posted on 04/23/2020 10:19:26 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

We desperately need an effective therapeutic. Something that works is a potential ticket out of this mess.


34 posted on 04/23/2020 10:22:21 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: wastoute

from texags Dr

“It appears that SARS-COV2 virus has a unique large spike protein like the MERS and HIV viruses that allows it to bind to the T-cells via the CD147 receptor. It then injects itself into the cell causing the cells to swell up with viruses RNA inside and become inactive. This is completely different from the SARS-COV virus and instead very similar to the MERS and HIV viruses. This explains the probable cause of the lymphocytopenia. The HIV virus is similar except that the HIV virus uses an enzyme called integrase to inject the virus into the host cells DNA. Once it combines with host cells DNA, when the cell replicates itself it is also making copies of the virus. In SARS-COV2 and MERS the virus can not replicate in the T-cells nor can it combine with the host cell DNA, instead just makes the T-cells unusable.

Since this is a huge topic of discussion now in the media I will give my opinion

“These characteristics with a large protein spike not found on SARS-COV1 unfortunately do give an appearance that this virus possibly could have come from the Wuhan laboratory as this type of mutation seems unlikely to occur naturally.”


35 posted on 04/23/2020 10:22:31 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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April 23 (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc(GILD):

* GILEAD SCIENCES SAYS "REGRET THAT THE WHO PREMATURELY POSTED" INFORMATION REGARDING ANTIVIRAL DRUG REMDESIVIR STUDY, WHICH HAS SINCE BEEN REMOVED

* GILEAD SAYS INVESTIGATORS IN REMDESIVIR STUDY DID NOT PROVIDE PERMISSION FOR PUBLICATION OF RESULTS

36 posted on 04/23/2020 10:22:39 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: CountryClassSF

Because they want a vaccine, a vaccine makes them BILLIONS of dollars..cant have drug therapies that work that would be a doggy no no, gotta have a vaccine forced into everyone’s arm


37 posted on 04/23/2020 10:27:44 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: RummyChick

Perhaps a “Gain of Function” manipulated virus? If you listened carefully to Trump last night he all but said so.

Still wondering what kind of side effects there could be. It’s curious, for this drug to work it would have to be taken up, transported to Ribosomes, and be present when the viral genome is being replicated. Seems to me that would be a serious first step before proceeding further with it but the way things are nowadays it doesn’t seem to be safe to assume a damn thing anymore.


38 posted on 04/23/2020 10:28:38 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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To: Rockingham
The antiparasite drug Ivermectin also shows promise

AND it helps maintain a shiny coat.

39 posted on 04/23/2020 10:31:25 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Vendome

Actually isn’t it VIRUSES we generally vaccinate AGAINST (prevent), whereas it’s BACTERIA we generally CURE (after the fact)?

Kind of funny, how that is switched.


40 posted on 04/23/2020 10:31:52 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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