Posted on 03/19/2020 1:17:16 PM PDT by Phillyred
There are early signs that an experimental treatment for people who become very sick from the coronavirus may start working within 24 hours of the first dose.
The treatment, an antiviral therapy called remdesivir, is thought to work by blocking the virus from reproducing itself in the body.
Susan Kane said remdesivir appeared to work quickly for her husband, too.
"On the very next day, he said: 'You know, I think it's lifting. I think I'm starting to feel better,'" she recalled.
Chris Kane is now home and, although he still gets winded easily, he is improving, according to his wife.
"We are 100,000 percent convinced that the remdesivir turned things around for him," Susan Kane said.
Because remdesivir is now officially in clinical trials at Providence Regional Medical Center, Kane's doctors declined an interview with NBC News, as they are unable to comment on the efficacy of the drug before results are made public. First results are expected in late April.
"We can't discuss any particular patient's care aside from the first one (published in the New England Journal of Medicine case report)," a spokesman for the hospital system wrote in an email.
In partnership with Gilead, the spokesman said, up to 1,000 patients will be enrolled in the clinical trial. Patients are slowly being recruited into the trials, not only in Washington, but also at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta.
"It basically stops the production of the virus," Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group in Rochester, Minnesota, told NBC News.
Remdesivir was one of the potential treatments mentioned by President Donald Trump during a press briefing on Thursday. He announced that federal health officials are removing barriers in attempts to rollouttreatments...
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Possibly very bad news for the left.
DJIA up 188 at end of day today.
“First results are expected in late April...”
By then the disease will have waned on it’s own (obviously opinion but an educated one)
Possibly important if a resurgence next flu season occurs.
I want to know more.
Don’t bail out.
By this summer, stocks will skyrocket.
How many hours after this news breaks, until the MSM will be blaming POTUS for “withholding” this as a treatment option “for thousands”?
I'm just thankful it wasn't down 1000 points again.
Rome wasn't rebuilt in a day.
Crybaby DeBlasio blaming Trump on TV now.
You definitely win the award for my favorite post of the day so far. Thanks. I know it says that official results not until late April but we need hope and the patients story is certainly a reason for it.
Yup. The stories will be about how only "the rich" are getting Remdesivir.
President’s poll numbers by Rasmussen as of today at 47! Steady as she goes!
I am predicting 51 in two weeks.
I’m just gonna keep hammering the truth home
Two are you government shills out there that want to try to put forth the blue dude orthe gray lady your gig is up
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“DJIA up 188
I’ll take it, but I sure wish it was up 2188! My mutual funds are taking one hell of a beating”
I haven’t logged into my ML account in a week. I’m down A LOT, no use fretting by seeing what it is down to the last penny. I’m riding it out without selling anything. My acc. and Wife’s 401k have dry powder which will go into some select stocks and Tech ETF’s when the coast is clear to speed up the account recovery.
‘’’Now where does hydroxychloroquine stand within the new studies? I keep reading this decades old Malaria treatment has cured CV-19 in small blind studies’’
The CDC knew that this drug was effective against Corona viruses in 2005! Make of it what you will — but -— I think some Americans died that didn’t need to.
TOTALLY AGREE!
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