Posted on 05/04/2020 9:25:52 AM PDT by RummyChick
The CEO of Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the promising drug remdesivir, says it will be available to treat COVID-19 patients as early as this week after receiving approval from the FDA.
The drug showed promising results in a study of more than 1,000 people around the world and has been touted as one of the first steps in reopening the economy.
Scientists found that patients who were given it recovered 31 percent faster than those who did not and that the mortality rate among recipients was around three percent lower; it was 8 percent in the drug recipients and 11.6 percent in placebo patients.
In an interview with Face The Nation on CBS on Sunday, Gilead CEO Dan O'Day said the company had donated its entire supply of the drug to the government to roll out to hospitals across the US and that it will also send some overseas.
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See my father’s girlfriend I noted above. She can’t take aspirin either.
One of the lung Drs who got Covid had a ferritin level of 18000 and was almost put on a ventilator. he received trumps drug, gilead and an HIV drug.
in reading more than I have ever seen in one place on thalessemia
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a0ccea318b27d4e810c291e/t/5cc0b1ba2be8f70001f1e8f8/1556132297768/Litavec+Thalassemia+TH+April+2019+presentation.pdf
I saw the drugs for iron chelation such as Deferoxamine.
And sure enough....they are testing it for Covid 19
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04333550
Texags site. You have to submit your medical license to the forum.
You can search the site for the various people using the buzzwords. Most don’t reveal their names.
Also have seen many Drs on twitter talking about it. You can easily search it..and they use their names
i’m sliming nothing. for the patient population I treat hydroxychloroquine is not that effective and I am glad to have remdesivir. You are free to refuse it on many grounds you want.
oops..not gilead drug..genentech drug
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/05/what-it-feels-like-to-survive-covid-19s-dreaded-cytokine-storm/
removing CO2 does not make it easier for oxygen to enter cells. Yes it would have blood clotting problems same as ecmo. You snarked first. I am really tired of those who are not at beside with skin in the game and no medical training telling those of us that are treating this this on a daily basis what to do because Trump said something works so it is the magic bullet, dumping on treatments being developed because they are expensive, and calling into question anyone’s credentials that doesn’t agree with their erudite opinion. I have tried to bring a realistic calm view of things to these threads but everyone wants their conspiracy theories and tinfoil. Enjoy
Which # post?
I asked you to describe the population that couldn’t take it. If you can’t provide a description, say so.
> “Texags site. You have to submit your medical license to the forum.”
Do you have a medical license? I don’t think so.
> “You can search the site for the various people using the buzzwords. Most don’t reveal their names.”
You didn’t answer the question. There is no reason for an MD to hide themselves if they support remdesivir.
> “Also have seen many Drs on twitter talking about it. You can easily search it..and they use their names”
Provide links.
So I am still in search of the answer to this question. Do you know it?
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/06/hydroxychloroquine-update-for-april-6
Paul Nicholas Boylan says:
7 April, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Is anyone screening for thalassemia? I am Greek and have thalassemia B. It is easily managed, but all of my doctors over the years have warned me to avoid taking malaria medicates because they are lethal to thalassemia patients. Hydroxychloroquine is a malaria treatment.
I do not have a medical license. In order to be shown as a Dr on that site they DO Have to present their medical license
You can look at it or not.
You can believe it or not
They are on the front line. One has actually enlisted the help of another to gain access to the Genetech drug for his patient
[[So if they were able to test this why didn’t they test the Quinine solution too?]]
because HCQ is ‘very very dangerous’ according to the TDS main stream media- there might be a 0.00001% chance solemn could have a heart attack while on it- oh, and because President Trump touted it as safe and effective-
The poster is not an MD. The poster is a fraud.
You are skirting the question. If you have no license then you would not be able to see MD discussions on controlled sites yet you say you are watching ‘frontline’ doctors.
Time to come clean.
your post is nonsense
anyone can go read those posts
we frequently repost them on the Daily covid thread
and YES, they have to provide their medical license in order to get the medical tag
[[We give hydroxychloroquine because until now thats all we had but the results were less than impressive.]]
Just HCQ and not antibiotics and Zinc together?
Great HOWEVER it has to be administered intravenously SO I would assume you would already be hospitalized!{ The hydro and Zpack is much better to keep you OUT of the hospital!!
and btw, I noticed you didnt answer this question as to whether a certain class of people (who already deal with oxidative stress due to the disorder) might need look to another drug to help them with COVID 19
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/06/hydroxychloroquine-update-for-april-6
Paul Nicholas Boylan says:
7 April, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Is anyone screening for thalassemia? I am Greek and have thalassemia B. It is easily managed, but all of my doctors over the years have warned me to avoid taking malaria medicates because they are lethal to thalassemia patients. Hydroxychloroquine is a malaria treatment.
Derek Lowe of the ‘ScienceMag’ is a known shill for remdesivir who is tasked to create propaganda against HCQ.
Thalassemia disease including thalassemia B is EXTREMELY rare INHERITED lifelong blood disorder with no cure.
Every known tested approved drug has categories of rare conditions that cannot be treated without consequence.
Such rare conditions can only be treated with what are called in the industry ‘Orphan Drugs’. There is no money in them. One would hope IRS permitted charitable foundations such as the Gates Foundation would fund drug development for such orphan diseases but we don’t see that here. There are others that have funded treatments such as iron chelators for Thalassemia .
Your referencing of the odious Derek Lowe and of orphan conditions makes a very weak failing argument for promoting remdesivir which is not demonstrated for such conditions and will not be developed because Gilead have stockholders that want big profits and will not approve their investment going to charitable R & D until they strike gold if they ever do and only then will they fund charitable R & D for PR image purposes only in marketing and advertising.
Post them then. You bring them up, you back them up.
Wasn’t remdisavir the name of the gadget that synthesized food in the movie “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”
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