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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You didn't respond to my fr mail about the Hemolung, so I doubt you have actually used the hydroxychloroquine+Zpact+Zink.
Don’t fall for it.
You have no idea of the villainous Gilead gang behind remdesivir, their unethical smearing of competition and their clear clinical failures over the last 10 years with other viruses.
You are carrying their description of mechanism of action which has been their sales pitch for years before SARS-COV-2 and which doesn’t work. You are carrying their propaganda.
There is a full court press of propaganda to facilitate vaccines backed by Gates-Soros. Remdesivir is in their arena.
Don’t go there.
I am watching Drs on the front line say it works. That is their opinion
You can refuse the drug But I will request if hospitalized before I will go on a ventilator.
1. Beginning - HCQ (I’m guessing in combination)
2. Hospital - Gilead Remdesivir
3. Hospital w cytokine storm - Genentech Tocilizumab (Actemra)
Lots more detail at the East Virginia Medical School COVID-19 Management Protocol. They recommend Remdesivir in the hospital if available as an adjunct to HCQ, et al. It sounds like the EVMS protocol is in line with what the doc said.
They have a “salvage treatment” category which sounds like a last ditch effort that includes Siltuximab and Tocilizumab (IL-6 inhibitors).
That would be most of the quinine drugs, including hydroxychloroquine. Both it and azithromycin can cause cardiac issues.
That’s not to say that they are not considered generally ‘safe’ drugs, because they are. But no medication is completely 100% safe for every person on the planet, not even aspirin, and in this case, there were always people who couldn’t take either as a result of cardiac issues. Some doctors have swapped azithromycin for doxycycline to reduce the risk to cardiac-issue-sensitive patients, with early good results.
had not heard of that
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-green-lights-two-blood-filtering-systems-for-covid-19
does it have the blood clotting issues that come with ECMO. someone whose daughter is a nurse said the blood is so thick in patients
You wrote: “That’s not my experience in critically ill patients nor is it the widespread experience. We give hydroxychloroquine because until now thats all we had...”
If you don’t mind, please answer the following questions:
1. Did you give HCQ or HCQ+Zn or HCQ+Zn+AZt?
2. Did you administer such combination(s) to the COVID patients at the early stages (mild symptoms) or at the late stages (severe symptoms)?
3. You were not impressed with this particular treatment because of bad outcomes? no difference outcomes? side effects?
Thank you
actually its not Marik.
Its a Doc on Texags site.
No thanks. I want HCQ.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people, even here on FR, that seem to think that it actually *is* either/or, or that think that just because we have one we treatment don’t need any other. They are grossly mistaken, of course.
Read some of the posts above. It’s not either/or, and we need more than one tool for this (and most other) diseases.
I don’t are what you think i i have used or not. I don’t respond to freepmail everything that needs to be said can be said on the open forum. Hemolpinh is not widely used or available, it appears to be ecmo lite and is not appropriate for this condition. If any of you experts were to come to bedside and experience this for yourselves you would have a different perspective. Easy to be a keyboard warrior and dispense your sage advice not so easy at the bedside taking the risk of treating people.
In critically ill patients it is a big deal. However if you are unfortunate enough to become critically ill with this you can certainly refuse this treatment because you are not impressed.
I have said before I only treat hospitalized patients who by definition are ill and critically ill. I have no colleagues who have also used it who are impressed with its effectiveness
Costs 1500 times what HCQ costs, with the latter already far more tested and proven efficacious. I don’t like the idea that our guv has become indebted to this company, as there is an appallimg lack of studies showing real help, while Fauci on down keep trying to sabotage HCQ, which we know works.
HCQ seems to have a higher effectiveness rate, but since it's a cheap generic, there is no hype for it from Big Pharma.
There’s also been some success treating seriously ill COVID-19 patients with ritonavir and lopinavir, drugs initially created to fight HIV that have also had successes against other viral diseases. Ritonavir can do a decent job against Hep C and lopinavir has been a miracle drug for many who contracted HPV.
HCQ is not widely tested and certainly not proven efficacious in the ill and critically ill. But please feel free to refuse this drug for yourself and loves ones if you are unfortunately true enough to need it.
what city?
Yup. Lost leader. Very common business model.
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