Posted on 05/01/2020 2:23:23 PM PDT by knighthawk
President Trump announced Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of Gilead Science's experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients after early results of a clinical study indicated the drug helps speed recovery.
Trump announced the news at the White House alongside Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
"FDA's emergency authorization of remdesivir, two days after the National Institutes of Health's clinical trial showed promising results, is a significant step forward in battling COVID-19 and another example of the Trump Administration moving as quickly as possible to use science to save lives," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Remdesivir is on patent and very expensive. Hydrochloroquine is long off patent and cheap. There is much more profit in it for the producer and much more sideways profit for the bureaucrats, including of course, Fauci.
EXPOSE FRAUD FAUCI!!
Hasn’t Cuomo banned it yet?
I am fine with adding it in. I am not fine with the attempt to make it replace HCL/Zpack. The money is the ONLY consideration for the bureaucrats and the Industry.Lives are of no consequence except their own and they all have stockpiles of both drugs in case they get wuhaned themselves.
“Does not hurt to have both in the arsenal”
Could you give Oregon Governor Kate Brown a call and tell her to remove HQ from the prohibited for use on Covid classification?
Thanks
DEEPER ENTANGLEMENTS FOR SOROS AND GATES – BILLIONAIRES, CORONAVIRUS AND THE W.H.O.
29 Feb 20
The meat and potatoes/Cliff’s Notes version of those three articles reads like this – I tracked all of it back to George Soros, Gilead Sciences and Unitaid, which were working to penetrate China’s closed pharmaceutical market with patent-sharing strategies that could produce enormous royalties going back to the patent holders. Gilead specifically was looking to overcome stagnant products and expiring patent protections resulting in losses. In this case it’s Gilead Sciences which holds the patent on Remdesivir, which is the only known effective treatment at this time.
In short, we have George Soros in league with corporate patent-holders to the only known coronavirus treatment (treat after infection) at the same time Bill Gates holds a patent on a strain of coronavirus that may just serve as the only known cure (prevent before infection by vaccine.) How convenient that they each stand to add a king’s ransom to their already absurd and gaudy respective levels of personal wealth and through different vectors congruent with the same pandemic?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-china-gilead-sciences-idUSKBN1ZU2RX
JANUARY 31, 2020
Gilead working with China to test Ebola drug as new coronavirus treatment
The drug had previously been tested in patients with Ebola but was found to be ineffective.
China Wants to Patent Gilead’s Experimental Coronavirus Drug
February 4, 2020
No more promising than any other study.
UV blood irradiation is a method that was once used to good effect for a number of maladies less than a century ago. It was an IV that ran your blood out one prick through an irradiation box and back into your arm. The UV killed all sorts of bugs.
So with
1) the DEMS wanting/needing a big body count;
2) Big Hospitals gets the big $$$ from Covid patients
3) Big Pharma against cheap $20 (HCQ+AZP+Zinc) prefers Remdesirir $1000@pop
The Virus is a big $$ maker for certain corrupt people
Hate to be cynical, but “donating” 1 million with the plan to sell the 1 billion the docs later prescribe.
Actually, who’s being cynical? That’s the way it works. “Free samples” come with a hook.
Fauci touted Remdesivir during the early stages of the pandemic, when everything was anecdotal. Plaquenil is still dismissed by the good Doctor.
Remdesivir is over a 1,000 bucks per IV bag
Plaquenil is dirt cheap and can be mass produced.
Make your own conclusions. I made mine and have determined that Fauci has some skin in the game with Gilead’s Remdesivir
I get people are probably making money in this but there still may also be some
better science to it.
The poster is not an MD but a fraud.
How could this fraud know rendesivir is more effective in later stages? It’s not possible to know because there’s no testing data to address it. The full clinical results and the design the results came from that are touted by liar Fauci do not exist and are not yet at the phase 1 level, any existing results are pre phase 1 and are kept out of view, not fully transparent.
HCQ has very rare side effects and has the same side effect profile as aspirin.
It’s just not harmful. But listen to a pusher for remdesivir and you will hear HCQ is ineffective and dangerous.
Keep in mind that late stage COVID-19 leaves the lungs in a highly damaged state. No drug can reverse the damage. An effective drug can only put the fire out but if the fire was raging, the damage may be so severe, the patient will die or be on a respirator for years. It’s no different than if the skin is burned so severely in a fire to leave scars that are visible for a lifetime.
The HCQ combination therapy is applied aggressively at the earliest sign of COVID-19. Later stage patients have survived also with HCQ but there comes a point where the ‘fire’ is so out of control that the damage is so extensive that no treatment can provide a rescue.
The question of effectiveness in late stage disease is unproductive like asking a fire department if foam or pressurized water is more effective when both end up with a building burned down. Foam manufacturers might say their application saved some framing while the pressurized water advocates say they saved a floor. The argument is ridiculous in the backdrop of enormous damage. This is why advocates for HCQ stress the importance of early testing and early aggressive treatment.
Ask the fraud for statistics, regimen, study design he/she is involved in. You will never see it.
Keep in mind that Fauci years ago praised HCQ results from petri dish results in fighting back MERS. But Fauci is now claiming without basis that HCQ is dangerous and unproven.
Better than nothing and priceless to any lives it saves and their families.
Yes, there are rare but real problems with HC and some people have had to be taken off of it and it is less useful once the patient is in the ICU. Lupus and rheumatoid patients have known about the problems they may encounter with HC and have generally used HC safely and successfully for decades. Rem is a useful tool but is not the magic bullet, just an expensive one. The money, though and the paperwork is all important to the bureaucrats. HC has already been tested and validated as generally safe and does not need a billion dollars worth of new testing.
> “Rem is a useful tool ...”
Not proven.
Lots of media cheerleading but every piece I have read has no data to back up the cheerleading.
I read an NY Times piece just today
How Remdesivir, New Hope for Covid-19 Patients, Was Resurrected
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/health/coronavirus-remdesivir.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Not a shred of supporting data, not even a reference. Look at these quotes:
“It took the federal trial, in which many patients were given a placebo, to show that remdesivir seems to have a ***modest*** effect.”
A***modest*** effect has no meaning outside trial and study statistical tests. A modest effect is a way for a NY Times writer to blab the thing works as she does in this next quote:
“Thank God, we have something that works,” Dr. Monto said.”
Unbelievable.
And Dr. Monto is not a medical doctor. But he is certainly a cheerleader. I would wager he owns Gilead stock.
Note the twisted little boy with psychopathic tendencies named Bill Gates wants to vaccinate the world with nano inserted RFID elements which will identify, track, monitor people. I kid you not. He calls them ‘Digital Certificates’.
And remdesivir is his baby.
There is some other doctor on FR I had a disagreement with about the pharmaceutical companies withholding cures when they can sell expensive medications instead. An example is RBG who has survived the most deadly cancers several times.
He swore this made no sense, that if someone found a cure for cancer they’d be wealthy beyond imagination and a hero around the world. He even said it would be handled by the CDC as I recall. I disagreed, but was willing to see his side and said I was open to what he was saying as a possibility.
Judging by all the in-plain-sight evidence by these doctors, pharmaceutical companies and institutions and assure you I’ll not make that mistake again.
Gates’s prime enthusiasm which he has enunciated and which he directs his foundation toward is population reduction.
His whole family were enthusiastic for eugenics.
You know his mother’s uncle was high up in the Federal Reserve?
They were for generations in ruling class circles whose members do indeed think there’s too many of us peons.
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