Posted on 04/02/2020 10:10:43 AM PDT by rintintin
Up to $50 million has been approved for new research on a potential COVID-19 treatment, and Duke is taking charge.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a federal government-sponsored nonprofit that funds studies across a variety of types of research, announced a new program April 1 to research hydroxychloroquine, most commonly used as an anti-malaria drug, as a way to prevent COVID-19 infections for high-risk healthcare workers. The program will be led by a Duke research team at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, which is part of the School of Medicine.
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Maybe Nonprofit but certainly VERY LUCRATIVE.
It could have been more but they had to fund NPR/PBS and the Kennedy Center.
Boy, for an “anecdotal” “untested” “no evidence that it works” approach, there sure seems to be a lot of interest. How much of this would have happened this quickly had President Trump not spoken up?
Our hospital has a couple dozen people with the virus. About half dozen on respirators. We’ve discontinued hydroxychloroquine + z-pak because of the cardiac issues it might cause, and most think it’s not helping anyway. Not my decision, but this may not turn out to be the miracle chemicals they anticipated.
Also, we’re hunkering down, and expecting this to peak in mid May, with the hospital full of these patients.
I would be nice to know the dosages that will be given. I’ve seen too many tests that were designed to fail.
Good Lord, how many of these studies do we need? Seems like we are beyond wasteful and duplicative now.
The University of Minnesota started the same study about three weeks ago.
Why don’t these universities get together and collaborate? (Yeah, I know, dumb question)
Worse, 20% of the Kennedy Center money flowed back to Dems.
50 million to study something everyone already knows?
I sure don’t know how this stuff works.
For one thing, the drug is now being given to thousands of patients. A real world test. I assume pretty solid conclusions could be drawn from the outcomes.
But I suppose they also want double blind formal experiments so that they can make definitive statements about the efficacy. But $50M???
I have a hard time believing that this is simply the cost of doing business. You know what you’re looking for. You basically know what the answer is (based on real world outcomes). All you’re really doing is gathering documentation. $50M???
That sure seems to be contrary to most other hospital findings. Why the different outcomes?
Where is your hospital?
$1 M for the study.
$49 M for shiny new labs.
It does seem like a preposterous number, doesn’t it?
Were they also giving patients zinc with the hydroxychloroquine? Anybody with a zinc deficiency or under a certain level of extracellular zinc is not going to gain the total benefit of hydroxychloroquine. The drug is a zinc ionophore which transports the zinc through the cell membrane and prevents the virus from hijacking the RNA sequencing mechanism of the cell to replicate itself.
If patients didn’t have enough zinc in their system, again, it’s not going to work as well.
Are the dosages different than used for the treatment of malaria? Hasn't this been used for decades for treating malaria and deemed safe at those dosage levels? I assume that cardiac side effects have been noted in the treatment of malaria but its use still continues. Seems that discontinuing its use here might be excessive caution.
Waste of government cash. Plenty of studies underway right now.
Duke . . .
“Up to $50 million has been approved”
About $10,000 for the drugs, and the rest for their effort.
I am calling bullsh*t on your anecdotal story. Let me guess what could cure it.... it’s Joe Biden being elected in November and DOnald Trump in jail for crimes against millenial’s feelings,... Then Covid-19 will run and hide.
How can they even put a figleaf on spending $50M on this?
All they need is a little reporting from the field. Good enough.
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